Re: {bb} email notification help!

[Robert-Andre Croteau <robert@bb4.com>]

Henrik Storner wrote:

> In <41A05871.3010709@edgefocus.com> Karan Gupta <kgupta@edgefocus.com> writes:
>
>
> > BB gurus
> >           Im  running 1.9e on fBSD monitoring about 300 nodes. I have 
> > not been able to get my head around configuring email notification 
> > correctly.
>
>
> > pagelevels: red
> > pagelevelsmail:
> > pagerecovered: FALSE
> > pagetype: EVENT
>
>
> I could be mistaken, but I think you need a "pagelevelsmail: red"
> since all of your paging-rules define e-mail recipients only.

no need, but purple should be in pagelevels (unless it was
removed because of the slow network test cycle but dont' forget
to put it back when it is solved)

> > Sun Nov 21 00:07:36 2004 bbrun (bb-network.sh) Runtime of 3993secs is 
> > longer than BBSLEEP (600)

humm, over 10secs per host.
Does the DNS name lookup work properly ? Are there many hosts
behind a slow WAN link ?  There is something wrong here and I'm
pretty sure it ain't BB.

> > I do plan to switch to fping to lower the time.
>
>
> Almost 4000 seconds - that more than an hour for a single cycle
> of the network tests !! You seriously need to look at fping,
> and possibly bbgen.

that may be true but I think there's a bigger problem here and
switching immediately to fping and bbgen will only mask the
problem, not solve it.

bye
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