I recently had 2 hosts that duplicated (#20503 and #20943). The old host record was ignored, and a new one was created. Ever since that happened, the resources on these hosts are set to 0 for all projects when viewed in the Host list.

The actual machine has it's resources set correctly (for now), but BAM seems to not be updating the host's resource settings.

I also have some hosts that duplicated in BAM! (cause is a changed host-cpid), but the retain their resource share. Can you confirm this problem still exists?

Yes it does, even now that the hosts in question are at BOINC 5.8.8.

Also, some of the non-duplicated hosts are showing incorrect resources for projects that were attached recently (like ABC). The hosts themselves are correct, but their BAM listings are not. Shouldn't the host-specific settings get updated when the overall resource settings change?

I'm still seeing a problem with this, and not just on BAM-duplicated hosts. It seems that settings that existed pre-BAM are taking precedence over my main Resource settings. So, changes being made on the main Resources page are being ignored.

How about adding a switch to the main Resources page that allows those settings to override all host-specific resource settings? Alternately, how about a switch for the host page that says "Use default resource settings" (vs. using host-specific ones).

OK, I think I figured this out. My hosts had values filled in on their host-specific resource pages that I never entered. My guess is that the host pages were pre-populated with whatever the project resources were at that time.

It looks like they should have been pre-populated with '-' so as to pick up the project settings, without making a host-specific setting?

Anyway, I just manually changed all my host-specific resources to hyphens. Maybe a button should be added to BAM to do that to all hosts, as kind of a reset button?

Anyway, new problem now. It looks like BAM has not connected any of my hosts in the last 48 hours or so. Yesterday (3/4/2007) the regular 24-hour connection did not happen. Today, if I manually try to make BAM connect, I get:

3/5/2007 10:09:14 AM||Contacting account manager at http://bam.boincstats.com/
3/5/2007 10:09:15 AM||Account manager error: http error

Something wrong on the server side? I can't be sure this fixes my resource problem until BAM can actually connect to my machines and update them all again.

Looks like Rytis and/or Willy got BAM back up. Thanks!

Now that my hosts have all synced, it looks like putting the hyphens into all the host records worked. I still think that there needs to be a control/button in place to do this automatically, to blank out all host-specific resource settings.

No matter what I do, I cannot get all of my hosts to obey the BAM resource settings. Some are stuck at 100 resource sharing on all its assigned projects.