Re: {bb} BB ext with long interval between runs turns purple

[Fabian Behr <fabian.behr@telefonica.de>]

fuser9bb@hotpop.com wrote:

> Any help on this?
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: <fuser9bb@hotpop.com>
> To: <bb@bb4.com>
> Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2005 10:39 AM
> Subject: {bb} BB ext with long interval between runs turns purple
>
>
> > I am running bb1.9e on FreeBSD 4.10.
> >
> > I have several custom extensions that I wrote to monitor our MySQL 
> > servers. One of the extensions does a mysqlcheck once an hour against 
> > all of the MySQL databases. I have the script defined in 
> > etc/bb-bbexttab as:
> >
> > mysql.example.com : bb-mysqlstat.sh bb-mysqlcheck.sh;3600
> >
> > So once an hour bb-mysqlcheck.sh runs. However, after 25-30 minutes 
> > the status turns purple on the display. I really don't want to run 
> > this test more than once an hour. How do I make it so that this test 
> > doesn't have to run more often? I do want purple reports for normal 
> > checks (e.g., disk, bb-mysqlstat.sh), so I'm hoping I don't have to 
> > change a global value.
I think you have just forgotten a ":" in this definition.
Right entry should be:

 mysql.example.com : : bb-mysqlstat.sh bb-mysqlcheck.sh;3600

This will run the bb-mysqlstat.sh script every 5 minutes (if 
BBSLEEP=300) and bb-mysqlcheck.sh every hour.

Remember that you have to set  "status+60" in bb-mysqlcheck.sh. 
Otherwise  the test will become puple after 30 minutes (default).
See "6.9	Setting a Time To Live to a status message" in the bb helpfile.

I hope this will help you.

Fabian
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