I can only answer your second question, and that only with a theory. We used to get this in bb all the time as well as hobbit now. We only get it with custom scripts and we thought it might be tests that get added to the display because of an alert, but have no corresponding test listed in bb-hosts, so the bb/hobbit daemon doesn't generate a test for something it's not even keeping track of.
That would make sense to me, since you may not WANT it to do so in a custom script, but again it's only a theory. We haven't tested it. Just noticed patterns.
One of these days I'm going to get time and just dive into the code.
Tod Hansmann Network Engineer
-----Original Message----- From: Sean R. Clark [mailto:sclark at nyroc.rr.com] Sent: Monday, May 14, 2007 9:26 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: [hobbit] two ack questions
First - what does a -1 mean for acktime,disabletime, and cookie mean when I run hobbitdboard?
I see that they(-1) are valid from the man page, but I can't seem to find what they mean...
Second - what would cause an alert to go out the hobbitdalert channel but not have a valid ack code?
I got this today:
Subject: Hobbit [0] hostname-swt09a-02.domain.com:if_stat CRITICAL (RED) (body) red Mon May 14 13:15:18 2007 results of test bleh bleh
Is that normal not to have an ackcode? And if not, how can I track down why it is ?
-Sean
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