I guess it depends on how much you want your pager to go off. If you are very lonely, then shortening the time interval might keep your pager hopping.

The default LIFETIME value allows a server to reboot without adding alot of "purple" clutter. You have the source code so perhaps you can find out for yourself how difficult it might be to change the default value.

If you collect data more often you will have to look at the RRD code as well because it is set up for 5 minute samples. I believe there are some hints in the documentation about how to change to a one minute sample interval.

Keep in mind that the client may need more than one minute to complete its workload.

Others who know much more than I may wish to add their own comments...

GLH

On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 12:25 PM, Kii NODA <kii.noda at gmail.com> wrote:

Hi everyone,

We're in the process of moving away from Zabbix and have been considering Xymon/Hobbit for this move. We do, however, have a few things we need to clear up.

We've been deployng Hobbig on a Debian Lenny box and have a few Debian (Sarge, Etch, Lenny) and a few Fedora clients. We are, at this point, wondering about the reasons behind having a LIFETIME of 30 minutes for checks. The way we see things, we'd rather have this as 6 minutes considering a 5 minute interval for the checks. Can anyone please explain why this has been setup as such and if/how this can be changed? Been going through /etc/hobbit files, read man pages and exercised our Google-Fu but could not come up with a solution.

Also, could someone please suggest a reason for not moving interval checks to lower values, such as 1 minute? Zabbix has been spoiling us with very small check intervals, giving us the feeling of staying on top of things.

Thank you very much in advance,

kN

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