[hobbit] dialup directive not implemented?

[Brodie, Kent]

Agreed; we use "dialup" on individual hosts that go off a lot (for
example, on printers that departments insist on shutting down now and
then to conserve power).......    I do not use the complex form, simple
hosts only.

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Kent C. Brodie - brodie at phys.mcw.edu
Department of Physiology
Medical College of Wisconsin
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-----Original Message-----
From: Rich Smrcina [mailto:rsmrcina at wi.rr.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, August 08, 2006 10:38 AM
To: hobbit at hswn.dk
Subject: Re: [hobbit] dialup directive not implemented?

We use dialup on individual hosts, not in the way that Mike describes. 
If you're coming up with a different way to identify hosts that should 
not go red nor notify when they are down, that's fine, as long as the 
capability is still there.

Henrik Stoerner wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 08, 2006 at 09:03:04AM -0500, Mike Serra wrote:
> 
>> I have a simple question about the "dialup" directive in bb-hosts,
the
>> one that is supposed to come immediately after a page or subpage
>> directive, and is used to ping a range of hosts, like a modem pool.
Our
>> sysadmin tells me that he read (in a man page online?) that this
>> directive is not implemented.  And it's acting like it isn't: we
can't
>> get it to do anything, despite trying every possible syntax that
could
>> make sense.  But on the other hand people online talk about this as
if
>> they're using it just fine.  So -- is it implemented?  We are using
>> hobbit version 4.2-beta-20060605.
> 
> It was implemented some time ago, but I've had reports coming in over
> the past couple of months that it doesn't work in the 4.2 test
releases
> that are out. I then asked if anyone was using it, because if not I'd 
> prefer to just rip it out instead of trying to fix it - and so far
> noone has stepped forward to say they really need it.
> 
> So ... do you need it ? If people want it, I'd really rather implement
> it quite differently than the old BB implementation - as a normal
> network test associated with a host, e.g.
> 
>     0.0.0.0   vpnpool.foo.com  # iprange=172.16.1.1-172.16.1.100
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Henrik
> 
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