Re: {bb} Still Having Purple Problems

[Philip Clark <bblist@cannae.uklinux.net>]

On Thu, 2006-08-24 at 15:00, Jerry L. Dodd wrote:
> I have increased the time to run the script to be every
> ten minutes.  Several hours later I will get a purple dot.
> When I click on the purple dot, the time beside the purple
> message (purple Mon Aug 21 14:43:07 2006) is always a minute
> or more behind the time under "last update".  Is this an
> indication of something being out of sync or is this normal?
> This is not happening because the times are older than 30
> minutes.  The times are actually within 5 to 10 minutes from
> the actual time. So having a purple dot show up that quick
> is confusing.

The TTL is triggered by the timestamp on the status file. It is
set to the required future time (now + purple delay) when the status
is updated and triggers "purple" when it falls behind the current
time.

> I have tried to setup the "time to live" but it does not
> seem to be working.  Per the archives the format is:
>  ./bb 123.123.123.123 "status+1440 test.test hello world"
> where
>   123.123.123.123 is ip address of BBDISPLAY
>   test.test would be machinename.test
>   hello world would be a status message
> This does not include a color code, so should green be in
> there somewhere?

The format is actually:

  $BB $BBDISP "status+1440 host,name,net.test green `date`
Your Message Here."

This is from section 6.9 of the on-line manual. Note that you can
(and probably should) use those variables if you have loaded the
BB environment in the script. It helps to keep things from getting
out of step. Also note that the host name (if FQDN) is comma
separated and then a dot (period) before the test name. The "date"
command may not be strictly necessary, but it's a good idea to
include it.

Cheers, Phil.



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