Re: {bb} "bbnet Timeout with server" messages and purple conn tests

[Sean MacGuire <sean@maclawran.ca>]

Jason Signalness wrote:
> We've been having some unusual problems in our network, most likely 
> switch related.  But the odd thing is, our Big Brother server doesn't 
> react in any logical way.
>
> For example, a bunch of the "conn" tests go purple, not red.  Since we 
> don't get paged on purple, we don't get paged.  I noticed these alerts 
> in the BBOUT file:
>
> Wed Dec 21 04:20:42 2005 bbnet Timeout with server 1.2.3.4 on port 22
> Wed Dec 21 04:21:02 2005 bbnet Timeout with server 5.6.7.8 on port 110
> Wed Dec 21 04:21:22 2005 bbnet Timeout with server 9.10.11.12 on port 25
> ... and so on.
>
> Can anyone explain why conn tests go purple, not red?  Under normal 
> operation (when our switch or whatever the cause of this issue is 
> behaves) if BB can't ping a host, it marks it red and we are notified.

The network test info didn't make it back to the server, therefore
the server just sees that it hasn't heard from the conn test for
a while, and marks it purple.

That's what those 'timeout' messages are - the clients can't
reach the server to report in (for SSH/22 POP3/110 and SMTP/25).
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Sean MacGuire                                 sean@maclawran.ca

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