I have a couple of
websites with a single page being checked for two distinct content strings
that happen to be hosted on Windows servers.
The BB-HOSTS entry
for them is of the form:
1.2.3.4
website #
cont=test1;http://website/testpage.asp;STRING1[[:space:]]OK
\
cont=test2;http://website/testpage.asp;STRING2[[:space:]]OK
This produces 3
columns for the host - test1, test2 and http - as expected. Alerts for
test1 go to one pager, alerts for test2 go to another pager, and alerts for
http go to yet another location as required by the people carrying the
pagers.
When there is a problem with
the website, though, with the specific examples being an Internal Server Error
500 code, the http column goes red with a 'DNS ERROR' message and the test1
and test2 columns go clear, but report the error page results. This
causes confusion with the people carrying the pager, as they think there is a
problem with the DNS server or Big Brother, rather than seeing the 500 error
from their servers.
There is no
evidence of an actual DNS error - the only error is a 500 code from the
webserver produced by the content test.
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Brent B
McCrackin
UNIX Systems Specialist - Bell
Sympatico
"Serenity through
viciousness."