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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=123385115-25022009><FONT face=Verdana
color=#0000ff size=2>You can use ping, or floodping (fping) or any other test
that you want. The built-in Xymon "conn" test is not really designed to
run at one second intervals. In fact, a ping can take several seconds to
time out, so you need to either ping with a very short timeout period, or deal
with the fact that ping A may still be "active" (and on its way to timeout) when
you issue ping B. If you write a single-threaded script you will fall
behind.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=123385115-25022009><FONT face=Verdana
color=#0000ff size=2>I've heard good things about something called "smoke ping"
but I have never used it or even investigated it.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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color=#0000ff size=2>There is documentation available for creating your own
tests in Xymon. The basic task is to write some executable that the Hobbit
client can launch at regular intervals, or you need to write something that can
run as a standalone system and then communicate status at regular
intervals. You decided what status to send Xymon, and you send it when you
are ready. Xymon will take care of the rest. If you want to graph
your results you have to set up Xymon to detect your data as it comes in and log
it in RRD files, and you will have to define any graphs that you
want.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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color=#0000ff size=2>You can do some "interesting" things with Xymon and some
simple custom tests. For instance, if you are capturing syslog on a
central server, you can run a "wc -l" against the file every 5 minutes, and let
the RRD library log this for you. If you let the RRD function calculate a
rate, you can easily graph your "syslogs/per second" over 576 days, and look for
trends. This is not particulary elegant, but it does
work...</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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color=#0000ff size=2>GLH</FONT></SPAN></DIV><BR>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> Naudit007
[mailto:mailinglist.benoit@gmail.com] <BR><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, February 25,
2009 9:42 AM<BR><B>To:</B> hobbit@hswn.dk<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: [hobbit]
BBNET customize short interval ping<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV></DIV>Ok, thank you Greg.<BR><BR>The pings are only started since
serveur. <BR>But what advise me as command to create my script ??? Ping is the
better solution ? <BR><BR><BR>Thank <BR><BR>
<DIV class=gmail_quote>2009/2/20 Hubbard, Greg L <SPAN dir=ltr><<A
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN><FONT face=Verdana color=#0000ff size=2>You
would be better off writing your own test than to try to do this with the
standard Xymon functions. All you need to do is write a test that will
ping at one second intervals and record the results. then, at the end
of your test you can scan the results and send a consolidated message to
Xymon for display.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN><FONT face=Verdana color=#0000ff size=2>One
ping per second is very aggressive, and you are going to find that many
pings are dropped or delayed (deferred) due to normal network activity --
and that this is not a problem.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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size=2>GLH</FONT></SPAN></DIV><BR>
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