[OpenAFS-devel] Buildbot sick?

[Jason Edgecombe]

On 07/29/2011 12:45 AM, Christof Hanke wrote:
> Am 29.07.2011 06:05, schrieb Jeffrey Altman:
>> On 7/28/2011 10:36 PM, Garrett Wollman wrote:
>>> Something appears to be wrong with buildbot: it's not posting the
>>> results of the builds to Gerrit any more.
>>>
>>> -GAWollman
>>
>> Looks to me as if its the opensuse-i386-builder that is sick.
>> 140 builds pending.
>>
> True, it was offline.
> I restarted it and it is already building again.
> Could the buildmaster inform the admin of the build-slave if/when it 
> is down ?
> (Only if the admin agrees to get spammed of course.)
> Integrating a test into my own nagios is easy, but a central approach 
> seems more useable for me. 
Yes, this is possible:
http://buildbot.net/buildbot/docs/0.7.12/#When-Buildslaves-Go-Missing

Only one email is sent per connection loss, though. If you are a 
buildslave admin and want this, please let me know.

Jason