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

[Frank Timmers <frank.timmers@philips.com>]

owner-bb@bb4.com wrote on 2005-12-21 15:53:24:

> 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.
 
This is indeed odd, however can you check how long the bb-network test is
running? I can amagine that due to the problems the bb-network test takes
longer then your PURPLEDELAY (as set in bbdef-server.sh).

Greetings,
/Frank.
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