[Bro-Dev] [JIRA] (BIT-266) broctl cron hangs with dead hosts

[Seth Hall (JIRA)]

     [ https://bro-tracker.atlassian.net/browse/BIT-266?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Seth Hall updated BIT-266:
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    Resolution: Fixed
        Status: Closed  (was: Open)

Without more debugging information or activity on this ticket, I'm just going to close it.

> broctl cron hangs with dead hosts
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>
>                 Key: BIT-266
>                 URL: https://bro-tracker.atlassian.net/browse/BIT-266
>             Project: Bro Issue Tracker
>          Issue Type: Problem
>          Components: BroControl
>    Affects Versions: git/master
>            Reporter: solomon
>            Assignee: Daniel Thayer
>             Fix For: 2.2
>
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> If a bro node has become completely inaccessible (dead or otherwise offline), the broctl 'cron' task will hang for far too long while attempting to restart bro on that host.  When 'broctl cron' is run from the system crontab, this negatively impacts any other use of broctl and prevents almost all interactive use of broctl, which repeatedly times out with 'cannot get lock' error message.
> One is forced to either kill all running python processes on the master (thereby killing the blocking 'broctl cron' task), or to run broctl non-interactively (such as running "broctl top" from the command line) over-and-over again until the process successfully gets the lock.
> broctl should timeout more quickly with hosts that are completely offline.



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