[hobbit] ping storm

[T.J. Yang]

Frédéric Mangean
Thanks for the pointer, I will read the fine manpage on hobbit's bb-host

tj

>From: Frédéric Mangeant <frederic.mangeant at steria.com>
>Reply-To: hobbit at hswn.dk
>To: hobbit at hswn.dk
>Subject: Re: [hobbit] ping storm
>Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2006 15:24:23 +0200
>
>Le 18/08/2006 15:19, T.J. Yang a écrit :
>>Can hobbit work with malfunction of switch/router ?
>>
>>ie, if a switich is dead ant it has 200 nodes behind it. there is no need
>>to issue conn outage alerts for those 200 nodes.
>
>
>Hi
>
>see the "router" keyword in the bb-hosts(5) manpage :
>
>
>route:router1,router2,....
>    This tag is taken from the "fping.sh" script, and is used by bbtest-net 
>when run with the "--ping" option to enable ping testing.
>
>    The router1,router2,... is a comma-separated list of hosts elsewhere in 
>the bb-hosts file. You cannot have any spaces in the list - separate hosts 
>with commas.
>
>    This tag changes the color reported for a ping check that fails, when 
>one or more of the hosts in the "route" list is also down. A "red" status 
>becomes "yellow" - other colors are unchanged. The status message will 
>include information about the hosts in the router-list that are down, to 
>aid tracking down which router is the root cause of the problem.
>
>    Note: Internally, the ping test will still be handled as "failed", and 
>therefore any other tests run for this host will report a status of 
>"clear".
>
>--
>
>Frédéric Mangeant
>
>Steria EDC Sophia-Antipolis
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