On 11/16/06, James Wade <jkwade at futurefrontiers.com> wrote:
ie… I went from about 30 to 60 URL's.
Does Hobbit stager URL checks? Is there a way to stager them?
I don't know about Hobbit staggering URL checks, but I'm doing a whole bunch more than 60 using scripts fired off by cron. Most of them repeat every ten minutes, some every five mins or every minute, and I've spread them out using cron settings.
These are mostly scripts left over from a previous Big Brother installation. I haven't yet converted them to live entirely in a Hobbit universe, so they still load up the BB definitions and use the BB bin/bb program to deliver reports, but they're working just fine from cron,. In fact, most of them were never fired off by the BB ext script functions. My old, single 733MHz cpu DL380 was trucking along without a problem, running around 1600 checks spread out over 400-odd hosts, until it blew out its power supply...
I don't know offhand how many of my url checks could be converted - quite a few checks are doing logins, or following links through several pages - but I was thinking of doing exactly that. Maybe I'll rethink that strategy... :)
Ralph Mitchell