On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 05:01:53PM -0800, Bruce Lysik wrote:

So I migrated one of our BB installations officially over to Hobbit today. Woohoo. So now the questions and comments from the other sysadmins start to come in.

Oh my god ... they're actually *using* the darn thing :-)

Bigbrother apparently has a paging setting where if all the hosts for a check fail, it will only page you on one of the checks. ie, a host's nic fails, so ping, http checks, snmp checks fail, but bigbrother would only page you about the ping check failing and preventing a deluge to your pager.

Does hobbit have a way to do this?

It should do that "out of the box". Hobbit's network tester mimics the way BB does network tests, so if the ping-test fails the "conn" column will be red, but the other network tests for that host will go "clear". And the "clear" color normally does not trigger a page.

The "depends" setting mentioned here is for dependencies between hosts, e.g. if your webserver needs an application server to be up before it can send a response.

Regards, Henrik