[hobbit] Re: how to test route tag

Hubbard, Greg L greg.hubbard at eds.com
Thu Nov 16 22:09:33 CET 2006


What if you set up two bogus addresses (host A and host B) with Host B
dependent on Host A.  Hobbit should show two failed tests, but Host B
will be yellow and Host A will be red. 

-----Original Message-----
From: Asif Iqbal [mailto:vadud3 at gmail.com] 
Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2006 3:01 PM
To: hobbit at hswn.dk
Subject: Re: [hobbit] Re: how to test route tag

On 11/16/06, PNIXON at ci.somerville.ma.us <PNIXON at ci.somerville.ma.us>
wrote:
> What if you just sent in a red/yellow status from the commandline to 
> test the trigger?

That did not help. I think fping has to find it not reachable.

>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Asif Iqbal [mailto:vadud3 at gmail.com]
> Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2006 1:56 PM
> To: hobbit at hswn.dk
> Subject: [hobbit] Re: how to test route tag
>
> On 11/14/06, Asif Iqbal <vadud3 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Is there a way to quick test the depends tag besides changing the 
> > host's ip to a fake one that the service depends on?
>
> changing the IP of hosts won't do the test with route tag (or depend 
> tag for that matter). In other words if I have real setup like this, 
> considering they are real IPs
>
> 1.2.3.4 hostA # testip route:routerB
> 1.2.3.5 routerB # testip
>
> There is no way I can just change the IPs to some fake IPs to do the 
> yellow test.
>
> Anyone know of a trick?
>
> >
> > In other words if depends=(testA:host1/test1) I can change the 
> > host1's ip in bb-hosts to test if depends working. Is there any 
> > other less crude way to test it?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
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