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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=506533017-13112008><FONT face=Arial size=2>I
suppose a feature request for 4.3.0 (or 5.0) since I don't believe it
exists yet, is to have an flag in bb-hosts that tells bbnet how often to
test (or report tests for) each host. Some tests, e.g. on the LAN, are
fine being tested every 5 minutes, but it would be good to know when
interconnects go down or suffer packet loss (a) more quickly, and (b) for
shorter periods not detected by the 5 minute test unless we were lucky to test
at the right time. However, there's no need to test every single host more
frequently, which could slow down the time it takes for bbtest-net to
report.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=506533017-13112008><FONT face=Arial
size=2>Additionally (ideally): I would like to know results of
continuous pings. Rather than just sending a <STRONG>few</STRONG> pings
every x minutes and seeing the performance of those, it would be nice to
have continuous, or at least pings that are continuous for the duration
specifed in the new bb-hosts flag I have suggested above, e.g. at 5 or 10
second intervals (so as not to overload routers or links), and to report the
results of these tests every x minutes (again, ideally, defined by the new tag I
have suggested above).</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=506533017-13112008><FONT face=Arial
size=2>OK, the result here is more than 5 minutes, but e.g. this Linux ping
command sends a ping request every 5 seconds, supresses the output and quits
after 60 seconds or so:</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=506533017-13112008><FONT face=Arial
size=2>$ ping -i 5 -q -w 60 xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=506533017-13112008><FONT face=Arial
size=2>PING xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx (xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx) 56(84) bytes of
data.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=506533017-13112008><FONT face=Arial
size=2>--- xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx ping statistics ---<BR>2360 packets transmitted, 2359
received, 0% packet loss, time 11795758ms<BR>rtt min/avg/max/mdev =
1.350/2.078/61.857/3.262 ms</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=506533017-13112008><FONT face=Arial
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=506533017-13112008><FONT face=Arial size=2>I imagine I can't
use that ping command in the FPING environment variable since there'd be
concurrency issues. But if there was a way of doing something similar, we
could <EM>really</EM> see what the performance on our links is. (It
doesn't like there is the equivalent to the -w ping option in fping, although
that can be approximated to a reasonable extent with -c or -C (count) given
a known -i (interval).)</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=506533017-13112008><FONT face=Arial size=2>Kind
regards,</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=506533017-13112008><FONT face=Arial
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=506533017-13112008><FONT face=Arial size=2>SebA</DIV>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> Josh Luthman
[mailto:josh@imaginenetworksllc.com] <BR><B>Sent:</B> 16 May 2008
07:27<BR><B>To:</B> hobbit@hswn.dk<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: [hobbit] ping
intervals<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV></DIV>Pretty sure
that's<BR><BR>[bbnet]<BR> ENVFILE
/home/shire/server/etc/hobbitserver.cfg<BR>
NEEDS hobbitd<BR> CMD bbtest-net
--report --ping --checkresponse
--concurrency=48<BR> #CMD bbtest-net
--report --ping --checkresponse
--concurrency=64<BR> #CMD bbtest-net
--report --ping --checkresponse<BR>
LOGFILE
$BBSERVERLOGS/bb-network.log<BR><B>
INTERVAL 5m</B><BR><BR>in etc/hobbitlaunch.cfg<BR><BR>
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<P>I have some servers that it is critical that I know they are down within
at the most a minute to two minutes… hobbit polls every 5min if I remember
right? How do I decrease the polling intervals so I can catch these
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