[hobbit] ping and traceroute

[Rolf Schrittenlocher]

Hi Dominique,

thanks! Read this page a dozen times (for other purposes) - a good 
example for "you will see only what you expect" :-(
Rolf

> Rolf Schrittenlocher wrote:
>
>> Good morning,
>>
>> this is an idea for a feature request. It would be nice if there 
>> would happen a traceroute automatically if conn/ping fails. So the 
>> result of traceroute could be displayed in addition to the negative 
>> ping results and we would know if the problem is at in our net or 
>> outside.
>>
>> Alternative: All standart tests of hobbit would allow to add scripts 
>> to be executed once a test fails. So everyone can handle this as 
>> (s)he likes.
>>
>> I wish all of you a silent pager the next days!
>> Rolf
>>
> This fearure is already available.
>
> ----Extract of bb-hosts man page----
> ...
>      trace
>           If the connectivity test fails, run a "traceroute"  and
>           include the output from this in the status message from
>           the failed connectivity test. Note: For this  to  work,
>           you may have to define the TRACEROUTE environment vari-
>           able, see hobbitserver.cfg(5)
> ...
>
>
> Dominique
> UNIL - University of Lausanne
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