[hobbit] External scripts not working the same?

[Thomas]

Could we avoid the test on the conn tag when specifying the 
--no-down=TAG because I have systems that I am not allowed to ping but 
stil have to do other tests towards. Could the conn be the default and 
then if I specify another tag this is the only tag tested for ?

/Thomas

Henrik Stoerner wrote:

>On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 10:55:35PM +0200, Henrik Stoerner wrote:
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>>The tricky part is your idea about tying this in with the other 
>>network tests, to avoid polling the hosts that are down or disabled.
>>I can understand why (I know how long snmpget takes to timeout a
>>request) ... it's just an idea that I haven't heard before.
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>>I think it's a great idea - it would certainly be useful for exactly
>>this kind of test where you want to avoid testing unreachable systems.
>>Adding this kind of filter to bbhostgrep should not be terribly 
>>difficult - stay tuned.
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>A first attempt at implementing this is included in the latest 
>snapshot, available at http://www.hswn.dk/beta/ - or, to just
>pick up the new utility, grab
>   http://www.hswn.dk/beta/snapshot/common/bbhostgrep.c
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>Just drop this file into the hobbit-4.1.2/common/ directory and
>run "make".
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>This adds a new "--no-down" option to bbhostgrep. This causes it
>to query the Hobbit server for information about the hosts that
>have a non-green "conn" column (ping test); these hosts are 
>ignored and will not show up in the output from bbhostgrep.
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>You can also use "--no-down=SOMETEST". bbhostgrep will then
>also query the Hobbit server for the current state of the
>SOMETEST column for all hosts; if this column for a host has 
>status blue (disabled), then that host will also be ignored.
>Note that this is in addition to the "conn" check.
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>Regards,
>Henrik
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