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Hey Henrik,

Is there any way to replicate all messages received on port 1984 to a
text file for debugging purposes ?

Another question: the purple delay in hobbit, is it as documented in the
original BB specified in minutes ?

Thanks,

Wim

On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 11:57:01AM +0100, Wim De Houwer wrote:

The simplest way of doing it would be to start a hobbitd_channel
process listening on one of the Hobbit "channels" (probably "status"
or "data" since that is where the test results arrive), and feeding
it to "cat" that dumps it to a file.

It won't give you the raw messages, but the hobbitd-parsed versions - 
i.e. messages will have a single line at the top with the data that
hobbit has parsed from the message.

Try adding an entry to hobbitlaunch.cfg like this:

[statuslogger]
	CMD hobbitd_channel --channel=status cat
	LOGFILE /var/log/hobbit/messages.log
	NEEDS hobbitd

This logs all messages on the "status" channel (i.e. "status"- and
"summary"-messages) to /var/log/hobbit/messages.log . Each entry 
looks like this:

@@status#6464|1105963415.734609|127.0.0.1||osiris.hswn.dk|conn|1105965215|green|OrdAstILe|green|1105780120|0||0|
status osiris,hswn,dk.conn green man jan 17 13:03:35 CET 2005

[more lines of text from the status message]
@@

The format of the first line is described in the
hobbitd/new-daemon.txt

Probably, but I'm not quite sure what "purple delay" you are talking
about ?


Henrik

Well, in the old BB "purple delay" was how long bb would wait before
declaring a service purple (by whatever reason, in this case not
receiving any updates).  After some time all services  provided by an
external process on hobbit go purple, and I'm quite sure that the
externall process is still feeding hobbit messages but I'm trying to
understand why it decides that something is wrong and changes the color
to purple ...

Cheers,

Wim

-----Original Message-----

Probably, but I'm not quite sure what "purple delay" you are talking
about ?


Henrik

On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 01:22:34PM +0100, Wim De Houwer wrote:

OK, I see.

The tool that sends in a status report to BB or Hobbit also provides a
"lifetime" for the message. E.g. if the status message begins with
"status+60" then the status is valid for 60 minutes.

Hobbit obeys this and keeps the status valid for the time your tool
provides. If no time is given, the lifetime is default of 30 minutes
is used.

The only difference in the way Hobbit and BB handles purple statuses
is that in BB the switch to purple is done by the tool that updates
the webpages (the "mkbb.sh" script, or "bbgen" if you are using that).
In Hobbit this happens internally in the hobbit daemon.


Henrik