Re: {bb} fast recover?

[Sean MacGuire <sean@bb4.com>]

"Steven V. Jackson" wrote:
> 
> Brothers et. al,
> 
> 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.

Web pages are updated every 5 minutes.  What you see is a snapshot of 
the conditions at that moment.

> If the web pages refresh every 60 seconds, can you accelerate the yellow
> or red ping tests to repeat every 60 seconds? 

The web pages refresh every 60 seconds to make sure you get the new
reports ASAP.  Note that the page is just reloaded, not regenerated!

> 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.

Policy decision on this side.

You're notified immediately by pager of any state-changes, i.e.
if a condition goes red.  This can give you up to a 5 minute 
head start before the BBDISPLAY catches up.  This is a good thing.

Likewise, you can be notified immediately by pager of a recovery.

The BBDISPLAY will catch up eventually, but is meant only as a 
general visual summary of state.  The individual status reports
are where it's at.

And the reason for all of this is to make BB as light as possible
on the system.

So, next time your boss points something out say "I know, I've 
already been paged".
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