Just going through my mail and answering those I have missed ...

On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 11:44:16AM -0500, kevin grady wrote:

I have read through all of the documentation and I wanted to get clarification on network tests. Is there a way in hobbit to change the frequency of tests for hosts? Example, I ftp and http tests running against myhost.mydomain.com, can I have the http test run every 60 seconds because that's where we make money and run the ftp service check every 5 minutes because it is less critical.

There is a way to do that, but it isn't obvious - and it works on a per-host basis, not per-test.

You use the "NET:bla" tag in bb-hosts to split your hosts into the important ones and the less important ones. Then you run two [bbnet] tasks with different intervals, one runs every minute and handles the important hosts, the other runs with the default interval (every 5 minutes) and handles the less critical hosts.

E.g. you have three hosts in bb-hosts: www.foo.com is important, the other are not:

10.0.0.1 www.foo.com # NET:critical ftp http://www.foo.com/ 10.0.0.2 mail.foo.com # smtp 10.0.0.3 ns.foo.com # dns

(You could have "NET:standard on the non-important hosts, but I'll leave that out because there is an easier way to pick those that have no NET definition).

In hobbitlaunch.cfg, you change the default [bbnet] definition into two - one for each set of tests, with different intervals:

[bbnet-critical] ENVFILE /usr/local/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitserver.cfg NEEDS hobbitd CMD $BBHOME/bin/bb-network.sh critical LOGFILE $BBSERVERLOGS/bb-network.log INTERVAL 1m

[bbnet-standard] ENVFILE /usr/local/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitserver.cfg NEEDS hobbitd CMD $BBHOME/bin/bb-network.sh standard LOGFILE $BBSERVERLOGS/bb-network.log INTERVAL 5m

The CMD setting points at a shell script, because you need to change the BBLOCATION environment variable before running the network test tool. So $BBHOME/bin/bb-network.sh would look like this:

#!/bin/sh

BBLOCATION="$1" # "critical" or "standard" export BBLOCATION

if [ "$BBLOCATION" = "standard" ]; then

The "--test-untagged" makes it pick up those hosts with

no NET:xxx definition.

exec bbtest-net --ping --checkresponse --test-untagged --report=netstd else exec bbtest-net --ping --checkresponse --report=netcrit fi

Regards, Henrik