[hobbit] Service Results not updating completely with status changes

Hi Matthew, Everything is ok. I have been a little slack with the last time sheet and will get to it. I'm on secondment to another project in DEECD that requires separate billing. That has another week and a half to go and I'll send that time sheet then.

Regards Graeme

-----Original Message----- From: Matthew.Roberts at nt.gov.au [mailto:Matthew.Roberts at nt.gov.au] Sent: Monday, 12 May 2008 12:11 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: [hobbit] Service Results not updating completely with status changes

Hello Again,

I have found another problem with monitoring Services using the BBWin client with the Hobbit server.

Say for example I am monitoring the DNS service and everything is ok. The svcs page for that host will display something similar to:

  Mon May 12 10:55:04 2008 - Services OK
        DNS is automatic started req automatic started

  Name                                StartupType  Status
  DisplayName
  DNS                                 automatic    started

DNS Server

However if the status of the monitored Service changes to stopped, then an alert is generated and the page turns red, however the result of the test displayed on the svcs page does not change it stays as:

  Mon May 12 10:57:04 2008 - Services NOT ok
        DNS is automatic started req automatic started

Even though the data sent by the BBWin client has changed to

  Name                                StartupType  Status
  DisplayName
  DNS                                 automatic    stopped       DNS

Server

When it should reflect this instead:

  Mon May 12 10:57:04 2008 - Services NOT ok
        DNS is automatic stopped req automatic started

So that we can quickly determine why Services are NOT ok.

I indentifed the reason this does not happen is because the string variable which contains this information is set on startup of the Hobbit and the section which generates the result does not get run again until the daemon is restarted due to the the statement on line 2077 and 2078 of hobbitd/client_config.c

  result = (*walk)->rule->statustext;
            if (!result) {

By commenting the result = (*walk)->rule->statustext; line, I was able to force the result to update when BBDisplay runs at its regular intervals. Before I implement this change within our production environment, is there a specific reason why the result variable does not get updated at every BBDisplay update? Or was this line put in specifically to address some kind of performance issue?

I am not a C programmer and relatively new to the workings of Hobbit so any comment would be greatly appreciated.

Regards,

Matthew Roberts Senior Systems Administrator - Windows

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