On Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 05:10:58PM +0200, cits.bogajewski at daimlerchrysler.com wrote:
Searching for an option to set a time period when a service goes purple, but after consuming the entire docu as well as available options in config files still cant find it..
That's determined by whatever tool reports on that service, not by the Hobbit server.
All status messages - from clients, from the network tester, from custom scripts - send status messages with an explicit "lifetime", usually 30 minutes.
The Hobbit server just records this "lifetime" when a status update is received, and if a new update doesn't arrive within the lifetime, then the service goes purple.
For custom scripts, if you don't run them every 5 minutes then you should send in a status message with an explicit lifetime. E.g. lots of scripts do this
$BB $BBDISP "status $MACHINE.$TEST $COLOR date OK"
That just generates a status with the default lifetime. If your script only runs once an hour, you should do this instead:
$BB $BBDISP "status+70 $MACHINE.$TEST $COLOR date OK"
which gives it a lifetime of 70 minutes (1 hour plus a bit, in case a report takes a couple of minutes to generate).
Henrik