Re: {bb} fast recover?

[Henrik Olsen <henrik@iaeste.dk>]

On Fri, 28 Jan 2000, Steven V. Jackson wrote:
> How frequently do the ping tests actually run? Many times I've clicked a
> freshly yellow conn, and gotten a green detail screen. Makes me think the
> web pages are getting updated grossly out of synch with the ping tests.
Since they potentially happen on different machines, there is no
synchronization at all between the ping test and the bb.html page.
There is complete sync between the ping test and the detail screen.

Standard scenario:

BBDISPLAY         BBNET                 Comment
Updates page                            bb.html is green
                  check ping, red       bb.html is still green,
                                        detail is red
                                        notification has been sent
    .
    .
    .
Updates page, now red                   bb.html is now red
                  Check ping, green     bb.html is still red,
                                        detail is green

> If the web pages refresh every 60 seconds, can you accelerate the
> yellow or red ping tests to repeat every 60 seconds? I find that BB4
> is among the slowest to report return-to-normal and my boss loves to
> point out an ok server showing red on BB4.
Note that all notifications are done at the time of testing, not when 
the display updates, and that you can have return-to-normal notification,
which will be immediate, though the main display haven't been updated yet.

If the report comes it while BB is building bb.html, and it's on a
subpage, it's possible to get slight inconsistencies between the main and
sup pages, but as before, the detail page is always right and should be
considered the reference, the other pages are there to give the broad 
view.

-- 
Henrik Olsen,  Dawn Solutions I/S       URL=http://www.iaeste.dk/~henrik/
  Blame it on a Y2K testing problem in the system.  They will all
  accept that since everyone has been telling them the whole world
  will collapse due to Y2K.
                         Thomas R. Stephenson on handling irate customers


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