OK, I found out why - when a host was disabled, hobbit's "valid until" timestamp for the statusreport was not being updated; so to bbgen it appeared as if the status message was no longer valid, hence it would show up purple. This would actually trigger a status update so the "valid until" timestamp was refreshed, and it would stay blue for another 30 minutes.

Cute interaction between the hobbit daemon and bbgen.

Cool. Were you able to fix this in RC4? Because I just installed RC4, and it looks like it's still there. Or at least a similar problem is. At the moment I have three disabled purple monitors showing.

-- Bruce Z. Lysik <blysik at shutterfly.com> Operations Engineer