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

["PAUL WILLIAMSON" <pwilliamson@mandtbank.com>]

Yep, that's exactly what I'm saying.  I had that happen a number of 
times, so I switched to using the fping.sh script on deadcat.  I've 
been thinking about fping.pl, as I just got approval to put perl on 
my aix machines.  Either way, using fping to get things moving 
a little faster is a fairly easy upgrade.

What you'll also see if that some of the pingable but purple 
dots will cycle between purple and green, which is another 
indication of the run time extending beyond the sleeptime.

Paul

>>> jason@btiadmin.net 12/21/05 11:58 AM >>>
Wow, what an amazing response to my question ... this list is so 
helpful.  Thanks.

It looked like MANY (but not ALL) devices went "purple" for the ping 
test.  Perhaps 50 or 60 different hosts.

So what you're suggesting is that ping responses were slowed way down
by 
a very large number of unreachable hosts, resulting in the purple 
network tests, is that correct?  So it's like Big Brother was trying to

ping a bunch of hosts that it could not ping because of network issues,

so the network tests queued up to a backlog of more than 30 minutes,
and 
things went purple.  Is that a correct/plausible understanding?

Thanks,

Jason Signalness, Systems Administrator
Basin Telecommunications, Inc.
jason@btiadmin.net 1-701-355-5727
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PAUL WILLIAMSON wrote:

>How many devices are failing pings?  If you are using the default 
>ping that comes with Big Brother, it is horribly slow.  It most
likely
>
>means that the ping cycle is taking longer than 30 minutes or 
>whatever your purple delay is set to.
>
>Is there anything in your BBOUT indicating runtime is longer 
>than sleeptime?
>
>Paul
>
>  
>
>>>>jason@btiadmin.net 12/21/05 9:53 AM >>>
>>>>        
>>>>
>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.
>
>Thanks,
>Jason
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