You're assumption is right.

On 6/24/05, Andy France <Andy at zespri.com> wrote:

Hi Kevin,

Kevin Hanrahan wrote on 25/06/2005 07:49:42:

...

Can anybody tell me how to get a test to avoid purples if it is only run once a day? Thanks

As Hobbit doesn't have it's own client (yet!), I'll assume it understands all of the standard bb client options. I haven't tested it yet as I'm in the process of integrating our daily backup scripts into hobbit, where I too will need this feature.

If you read the help pages on the bb4.org site, you'll run across this one...

http://demo.bb4.com/bb/help/help/status_message_format.htm

When you call the bb client executable from your script, change "status" to "status+1440" in the message header for the lifetime to be 24 hours. You might want to bump it to 25 hours to cope with those times your daily process takes a little bit longer ;-)

HTH, Andy.

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On Mon, 2005-06-27 at 07:21 -0500, sladewig wrote:

On 06/25/2005 06:18 AM, Gee Pee wrote:

...

If you mean: I run a test once a day and it turns purple after 30
minutes, then you should extend the validity of the result of the
test. This defaults to 30 minutes and can be extended on the BB- client-side, see: http://bb4.org/bb/help/bb-man.html#6.9

I also have experienced problems similar to this. I have a external script on the client which I was running with a half hour as its time. When I switched to hobbit I began to get purple and recovered messages every 30 minutes from each client. The recovered message would be timestamped the exact time or +1sec from the purple. I ended up having to change the client to run every 5 minutes and still ocassionally I get purple/recovered. Perhaps a little fudge factor is needed to allow time for the client to complete the script. Something like status time plus and extra 30 seconds.

When you consider that the default is to send a report every 5 minutes, but turn purple after 30 minutes, you should see that there is definitely some room for delays being allowed for. For something checking hourly, I would suggest a fudge facter of 2 hours and 20 minutes. Of course, you also need to consider how long that test might not run for without you finding out about it.

PS, AFAIK, hobbit will run tests exactly when due, while BB doesn't (well, more recent versions try to, but probably don't excactly match up).

Regards, Adam