[hobbit] fping multiple interfaces on one host

Lee J. Imber toaster at imber.com
Mon Sep 19 16:36:21 CEST 2005


HTF did I miss that!

Thanks!

Lee

On Sep 19, 2005, at 10:00 AM, Larry.Barber at usda.gov wrote:

>> From the bb-hosts man page:
>>
>
>
>        conn={best,|worst,}IP1[,IP2...]
>               This adds additional IP-adresses that are pinged  
> during the nor-
>               mal "conn" test. So the normal "conn" test must be  
> enabled  (the
>               default)  before this tag has any effect. The IP- 
> adresses listed
>               here are pinged in addition to the main IP-address.
>
>               When multiple IP's are pinged, you can choose if ALL   
> IP's  must
>               respond  (the  "worst"  method), or AT LEAST one IP  
> must respond
>               (the "best" setting). All of the IP's are reported  
> in  a  single
>               "conn"  status,  whose  color  is  determined from  
> the result of
>               pinging the IP's and the best/worst setting.  The  
> default method
>               is  "best"  -  so  it  will report green if just one  
> of the IP's
>               respond to ping.
>
>
> Thanks,
> Larry Barber
>
>
> On Mon, 2005-09-19 at 08:50 -0500, toaster at imber.com wrote:
>
>
>     Hi,
>
>     We have one last custom script to move over from an old BB  
> server to
>     a Hobbit :)
>
>     It was a script to ping all the interfaces of a host and show the
>     results in a "IP" column.
>
>     With fping you can specify multiple hosts to ping. Is there a  
> simple
>     way to have hobbit do this for us already?
>     Ideally to show the ping results in the "conn" column.
>
>     I have attached a screenshot of what the current script shows.
>
>     Thanks,
>
>     Lee
>
>
>
>
>
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