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Deal, Richard wrote:
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">Sounds like
they need to through in MRTG
and go red when the traffic is high on the link.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">And then
throw in things like <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">bb-ospf.pl
to check that ospf is not
flapping over the link<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">bb-xsnmp.pl
to check out the routers at
each end and the interfaces</span></font></p>
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Yeah I'm aware of the existance of bb-mrtg.pl, although I have never
set it up. I guess I was hoping that Hobbit could natively support
ping testing rather than having to install mrtg and hack stuff in. Its
sort of confusing for a newbie when you are showing them the ropes of
Hobbit and start bringing external scripts into the mix (especially
ones that require modifying before they will work).<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">you can also
use http to a reliable server
on the remote side as part of the link test. Just make the http test
for
the link dependent on the router and the conn test to the web server.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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That won't work in this case as all of the companies servers are in a
CoLo, Hobbit is running at the CoLo, and they want to test the T1 link
at the office from the CoLo (there are no servers on the other side of
the office T1 to do a test against), and even if there was, it still
would not give them a heads-up to the T1 being slow/saturated, as
Hobbit only alerts when the conn test outright fails.<br>
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-Charles<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><font color="black" face="Tahoma" size="2"><span
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Charles Jones [<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="mailto:jonescr@cisco.com">mailto:jonescr@cisco.com</a>] <br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Friday, January
13, 2006
1:01 PM<br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:hobbit@hswn.dk">hobbit@hswn.dk</a><br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cc:</span></b>
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:crimson@technologist.com">crimson@technologist.com</a><br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [hobbit] conn
alerts
based on ping time</span></font><font color="black"><span
style="color: windowtext;"><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="black" face="Times New Roman"
size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">I'm helping someone set up
Hobbit at their company,
and they want to monitor the status of a remote office T1 link. Of
course
Hobbit can tell them if the link goes totally down, or you can ignore
bad pings
with "badconn", but they want to know when the link is <b><span
style="font-weight: bold;">slow</span></b>, as they often have periods
of time
when the pings are not dropped, but instead taking 1-3 seconds (instead
of
<100ms like normal). <br>
<br>
Is there any chance that Hobbit will soon support comparing the ping
replies to
specifiied values for green, yellow, and red?<br>
<br>
Somethign like:<br>
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1.2.3.4 myhost.com # conn:200:500<br>
<br>
This would make myhost.com's conn test go yellow if the ping was
between 200
and 500ms, and red if it was over 500ms.<br>
Since hobbit already graphs the numeric values of the ping replies,
this seems
like it would be fairly easy to add?<br>
<br>
-Charles<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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