OK, so the main purpose of the snapshot report is to reflect the color (status) at that time, and nothing else, right?

If so, then the remainder of the data (procs, cpu stats, etc) are essentially bogus - as such, should the extra information even be displayed in a snapshot report?

Kent C. Brodie - brodie at phys.mcw.edu Department of Physiology Medical College of Wisconsin (414) 456-8590 -----Original Message----- From: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] Sent: Friday, September 01, 2006 12:22 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] "snapshot report" generating wide variety of report times?

On Fri, Sep 01, 2006 at 01:00:58PM -0400, Jeffrey Chandler wrote:

On 9/1/06, Brodie, Kent <brodie at mcw.edu> wrote:

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Hi- when I run the "snapshot report" (say, for 9am, August 31), the

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system display shows a date of Aug 31, 9am. Cool. But as soon as I drill down to any server's report (cpu, disk, procs, whatever)- the actual dates of the report displayed are all over the place- days and even weeks off. (Aug 15, Aug 22, etc).

I noticed that yesterday too. It is showing up as the last date at which the status has changed. For instance, in some of my servers, the status has been green since Aug. 11 on some of the columns, and if I do a snapshot report for anytime between now and Aug. 11, the status page for that column shows up as what was reported on Aug. 11.

Is there a way to fix this so each snapshot, is accurate according to the data, and not the status color, to when you are taking the snapshot?

Doing that would require Hobbit to store - on disk - each and every status report that arrives, every 5 minutes. This would require a lot of disk space, add a huge overhead due to all of the I/O activity needed, and generally result in a significant degradation of Hobbit performance.

I think that is too high a price to pay for having the right timestamps on a snapshot report.

The color is right on the drill down status page. And that's the primary purpose of the snapshot report.

Regards, Henrik

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