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interpretation of status/colour for combo test

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list Buchan Milne · Mon, 30 Oct 2006 17:18:18 +0200 · 
I have been asked to provide an availability number for a number of services monitored as separate hosts with Hobbit. Eg, two different IP addresses running a few different services, and we need to provide an availability number for the combination (eg, when was everything working correctly).

I have set up a rule in bbcombotest.cfg, but according to the man page, green, yellow or clear result in 1 ("true"), and red, purple or blue result in 0 ("false").

However, I would like the combined service to appear "down" when one of the monitored services is yellow (eg smtp being yellow indicates a failure).

It would be nice if some of this were configurable, or if each state had a distinct value.

Regards,
Buchan

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Buchan Milne
ISP Systems Specialist - Monitoring/Authentication Team Leader
B.Eng,RHCE(803004789010797),LPIC-2(LPI000074592)
list Jason Altrincham Jones · Mon, 30 Oct 2006 15:37:48 -0000 · 
What's wrong with using an availability report for this? 

Jason.
▸ quoted from Buchan Milne
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Subject: [hobbit] interpretation of status/colour for combo test

I have been asked to provide an availability number for a number of
services 
monitored as separate hosts with Hobbit. Eg, two different IP addresses 
running a few different services, and we need to provide an availability

number for the combination (eg, when was everything working correctly).

I have set up a rule in bbcombotest.cfg, but according to the man page,
green, 
yellow or clear result in 1 ("true"), and red, purple or blue result in
0 
("false").

However, I would like the combined service to appear "down" when one of
the 
monitored services is yellow (eg smtp being yellow indicates a failure).

It would be nice if some of this were configurable, or if each state had
a 
distinct value.

Regards,
Buchan

-- 
Buchan Milne
ISP Systems Specialist - Monitoring/Authentication Team Leader
B.Eng,RHCE(803004789010797),LPIC-2(LPI000074592)