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In the ping resource script, there's support for "dampen" in the use of attrd_updater. </div>
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My expectation is that it will cause "ping", "no-ping", "ping" to result in the service being continually presented as up rather than to flap about.</div>
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In testing I can't demonstrate this, even using attrd_updater directly.</div>
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To test out how attrd_updater works, I wrote a small script to do this:</div>
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attrd_updater -n my_ping -D</div>
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attrd_updater -n my_ping -p -B 1000 -d 3s</div>
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sleep 1</div>
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for i in 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9; do</div>
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attrd_updater -n my_ping -Q</div>
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<span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt">attrd_updater -n my_ping -p -U 0 -d 3s</span><br>
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<span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt">done</span></div>
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<span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt">The output always has the first line as 1000 and every other line with a valud of "0" - as if there was no dampening actually happening.</span></div>
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<span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt"><span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt"><span style="margin:0px">Even if I modify the above to do -U 1000, -U 0, -U 1000, doing -Q at any point always shows the last value supplied, with no evidence of any smoothng as
a result of dampening.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt">Is the problem here that the -Q doesn't retrieve the value for my_ping using the same method as is used for resource scripts?</span></div>
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Am I totally misunderstanding how dampening works?</div>
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<span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt">Thanks.</span></div>
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