[hobbit] unknown host question

Olivier Beau olivier at qalpit.com
Wed Jul 27 15:20:24 CEST 2005


Hi Frédéric,

i tried that,
but i dont have a bbagent runnning on the host i removed from bb-hosts;
i was only doing network test with bbtest-net on this host


Olivier


Selon Frédéric Mangeant <frederic.mangeant at steria.com>:

> Olivier Beau a écrit :
> 
> >Hi all,
> >
> >when i comment an entry in my bb-hosts file,
> >the host disappears from the display, which is normal.
> >
> >i haven't done a "drop hostname" yet,
> >and , i don't see any "unknown host" in my log files..
> >
> >this brings me to the question : if someone deletes hosts in the bb-hosts
> file,
> >how do i know which hosts to "drop" ?
> >  
> >
> 
> Hi Olivier
> 
> if you run hobbitd with the option "--ghosts=log", you'll see them in 
> the "hobbitd" colum. Here's an example :
> 
> Ghost reports:
>   10.50.8.10      reported host cyclopes
> 
> 
> The man page says that :
> 
> --ghosts={allow|drop|log}
>               How to handle status messages from unknown  hosts.  The  
> "allow"
>               setting  accepts  all status messages, regardless of 
> whether the
>               host is known in the  bb-hosts  file  or  not.  "drop"  
> silently
>               ignores  reports  from unknown hosts. "log" works like 
> drop, but
>               logs the event in the  hobbitd  output  file.   The  
> default  is
>               "allow", unless the BBGHOSTS environment variable is set.
> 
> -- 
> 
> Frédéric Mangeant
> 
> Steria EDC Sophia-Antipolis
> 
> 
> 
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