Re: {bb} Newbie Q's - pics and processes

[Sean MacGuire <sean@www.maclawran.ca>]

> Hello,
> 
> I am looking into using BB to monitor the University's central mailhub, web
> server and other Sun's (perhaps expanding to network devices, NT servers,
> Novell servers depending on how things go).
> 
> So, far no real problem - I have BB running the display on my PC, and it
> monitors a couple of test Sun's. Some simple questions though...
> 
> 1) That picture...sorry Shaun...but I just don't think my manager will go
> for it! Has anyone devised/obtained a natty looking picture to use instead?

Change www/gifs/bb.gif to anything you like.  Many places use something like
the institutions's crest...

> 2) Can anyone point me to where/how I can change the 'refresh' timer of 5
> mins? For testing I'd like this a lot shorter, and generally I think we'd
> like notification a bit sooner.

BBLEEP in runbb.sh controls most things.  Notifications are sent out
immediately when something funny is detected, there's no delay.  Watch
out that the higher refresh rate doesn't overload things.  Also note that
the average delay is less than 2.5 minutes (1/2 of 5 minutes), and that we
humans have trouble reacting faster than that for extended periods of time.

> 3) Processes. I have left BB checking for 'sendmail' as a process (i.e. I
> left the config files, etc untouched as much as possible just to see that
> it worked). However, I run exim rather than sendmail on my PC and the Sun's.
> On the PC (under RH Linux 5.2) the process is shown as running. On the Sun's
> (Solaris 7) BB says that sendmail/exim is not running. It is. Again, any
> pointers as to where to change/test this to see what is going on?

etc/bbdef.sh, search for sendmail...

> 4) We've just installed NTP onto the Sun's. Has anyone got BB to test for
> this?

Posted to the list a short time ago, check the archives...

Regards
-- 
Sean MacGuire, Reality Engineering 		the BB Ministry of Truth
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