[hobbit] Re: how to test route tag

[Asif Iqbal]

On 11/16/06, Hubbard, Greg L <greg.hubbard at eds.com> wrote:
> What if you set up two bogus addresses (host A and host B) with Host B
> dependent on Host A.  Hobbit should show two failed tests, but Host B
> will be yellow and Host A will be red.

That is exactly what I tried and both went red. Check below my exact
entries of bb-hosts related to this

>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Asif Iqbal [mailto:vadud3 at gmail.com]
> Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2006 3:01 PM
> To: hobbit at hswn.dk
> Subject: Re: [hobbit] Re: how to test route tag
>
> On 11/16/06, PNIXON at ci.somerville.ma.us <PNIXON at ci.somerville.ma.us>
> wrote:
> > What if you just sent in a red/yellow status from the commandline to
> > test the trigger?
>
> That did not help. I think fping has to find it not reachable.
>
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Asif Iqbal [mailto:vadud3 at gmail.com]
> > Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2006 1:56 PM
> > To: hobbit at hswn.dk
> > Subject: [hobbit] Re: how to test route tag
> >
> > On 11/14/06, Asif Iqbal <vadud3 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Is there a way to quick test the depends tag besides changing the
> > > host's ip to a fake one that the service depends on?
> >
> > changing the IP of hosts won't do the test with route tag (or depend
> > tag for that matter). In other words if I have real setup like this,
> > considering they are real IPs
> >
> > 1.2.3.4 hostA # testip route:routerB
> > 1.2.3.5 routerB # testip
> >
> > There is no way I can just change the IPs to some fake IPs to do the
> > yellow test.
> >
> > Anyone know of a trick?
> >
> > >
> > > In other words if depends=(testA:host1/test1) I can change the
> > > host1's ip in bb-hosts to test if depends working. Is there any
> > > other less crude way to test it?
> > >
> > > Thanks


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