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longer intervals between tests

list Stef Coene
Wed, 8 Sep 2010 20:40:12 +0200
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On Wednesday 08 September 2010, Rob McBroom wrote:
Sorry if this is documented somewhere, but a quick search didn't answer my
question.

I'm defining a new server-side test in `hobbitlaunch.cfg`. It's working as
intended, except for one thing:

It doesn't need to run very often. I'm thinking every 6 hours or so. I've
got it set to 1 hour now while I test things out and it keeps going purple
about a minute before it runs again (and goes back to green). Is the
INTERVAL supposed to be factored in when determining if something should
be purple? If not, what do I need to do? A separate rule just for this
test in `hobbit-alerts.cfg`? (I really hope not.)
When you send the status message to the hobbit server, you have a line like 
"status machine.test".
If you run the test every hour, you can say "status+70 machine.test" so the 
result is valid for 70 minutes.


Stef