Re: {bb} ignoring purple timeouts when conn test fails

[Ryan Novosielski <novosirj@umdnj.edu>]

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I asked a similar question some months back. I think the question here
is "are you talking about BBNET tests or client-side tests?" If you are
talking about client-side tests, you're probably SOL -- at least that
was basically the answer I received. This could all be done with extra
coding; the question is how much work you're willing to do?

I'd personally recommend disabling a host you expect to be down for
several days. Blue does not hit the summary page, IIRC.

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John Foley wrote:
> 
> Hi all -
> 
> I'm wondering if anyone knows if BB trys to ignore the
> purple timeout when the associated host is down (ie,
> it fails the conn test).
> 
> In other words, I have a host that is down for a few
> days (bad hardware). The conn test shows red, and the
> other tests all show purple. This is to be expected,
> but I'm wondering if BB can be configured to not show
> the purple tests for that host when it's down.
> 
> This is a bit of an issue for me because our group uses
> the summary screen quite extensively (I'm modified it
> to include some more information than the standard
> summary screen), and when a host is down, and all its
> other tests turn purple, the summary screen starts looking
> very "ugly"...if the purple tests were ignored when
> the host is down, then it wouldn't be so bad.
> 
> While looking through the docs, I just saw a fleeting
> reference to this, but it didn't really answer the question -
> but it *did* start me wondering if this is just a
> problem for me since I'm using fping, and not the
> built-in conn test.
> 
> Anyone have any experiences / thoughts on this ?  I guess
> I could just go and disable those tests for a couple
> of days, but I was looking for something a bit more
> automatic...
> 
>    Thanks,
> 
>     John
> 
> 
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