Alerts not acknowledging

I have a frustrating situation where some alerts are not acknowledging. I don't know why some do and some don't.

I am using "Acknowledge alerts" under the admin menu. When I complete the form for the appropriate alert I get the response on teh form: "Acknowledge sent for host servicedvsv.ausport.gov.au / test esx"

Looking through the source of web/bb-ack.c I can see it is sending a message of the form:

% bb localhost "hobbitdack 88362 60 msg user" Where 88362 is the cookie and 60 is the time to acknowledge.

Trouble is, I get a message in hobbitd.log: 2010-06-10 12:01:02 Cookie 88362 not found, dropping ack 2010-06-10 12:06:43 Cookie 88362 not found, dropping ack 2010-06-10 12:09:39 Cookie 88362 not found, dropping ack

The cookie is correct: % bb localhost "hobbitdboard host=servicedvsv.ausport.gov.au test=esx" servicedvsv.ausport.gov.au|esx|red||1275561583|1276135842|1276137642|0|0|10.1.0.161|88362|red Thu Jun 10 12:10:42 2010

In some cases, I can do a multiple acknowledge on various tests on the same host, and anything from all to none of the tests get acknowledged. :(

Anyone else seen this?

David.

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