[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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