Re: [hobbit] ping storm

[Frédéric Mangeant <frederic.mangeant (at) steria.com>]

Le 18/08/2006 15:19, T.J. Yang a écrit :
> Can hobbit work with malfunction of switch/router ?
>
> ie, if a switich is dead ant it has 200 nodes behind it. there is no need
> to issue conn outage alerts for those 200 nodes.


Hi

see the "router" keyword in the bb-hosts(5) manpage :


route:router1,router2,....
   This tag is taken from the "fping.sh" script, and is used by 
bbtest-net when run with the "--ping" option to enable ping testing.

   The router1,router2,... is a comma-separated list of hosts elsewhere 
in the bb-hosts file. You cannot have any spaces in the list - separate 
hosts with commas.

   This tag changes the color reported for a ping check that fails, 
when one or more of the hosts in the "route" list is also down. A "red" 
status becomes "yellow" - other colors are unchanged. The status message 
will include information about the hosts in the router-list that are 
down, to aid tracking down which router is the root cause of the problem.

   Note: Internally, the ping test will still be handled as "failed", 
and therefore any other tests run for this host will report a status of 
"clear".

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Frédéric Mangeant

Steria EDC Sophia-Antipolis