[hobbit] RE: [Disarmed] Re: [hobbit] Hobbit CONN questions

[Hubbard, Greg L]

You may have to PURCHASE a tool if you want something to monitor ping response times, which are notoriously unreliable as an indicator of anything.

GLH 

-----Original Message-----
From: johan.boye at latecoere.fr [mailto:johan.boye at latecoere.fr] 
Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2007 10:12 AM
To: hobbit at hswn.dk
Subject: [hobbit] RE: [Disarmed] Re: [hobbit] Hobbit CONN questions

> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : Josh Luthman [mailto:josh at imaginenetworksllc.com]
> Envoyé : jeudi 8 novembre 2007 16:24
> À : hobbit at hswn.dk
> Objet : [Disarmed] Re: [hobbit] Hobbit CONN questions
> 
> It's very simple.  Conn is a ping test - it pings your host (with one 
> of two utilities).
> 
> Example:
> 
> 192.168.1.1 <http://192.168.1.1>   myrouter.domain.tld #
> 
> This will ping 192.168.1.1 <http://192.168.1.1>  on every poll cycle 
> and report to you via the web pages and email alerts if you've 
> configured that in hobbit-alert.cfg

That means it does just a ping & if the ping doesn't not reply, it will display an RED alert ?
And if the ping make 200ms or 2000ms or 15000ms to answer ? 

  Thanks you


 
> On 11/8/07, johan.boye at latecoere.fr
> <mailto:johan.boye at latecoere.fr>  <johan.boye at latecoere.fr> wrote:
> 
> 
> 	> -----Message d'origine-----
> 	> De : Morris, Chris (SS-IS)
> [mailto:Chris.Morris at RWEsystemsUK.com]
> 	> Envoyé : mardi 6 novembre 2007 15:54
> 	> À : ' hobbit at hswn.dk'
> 	> Objet : RE: [hobbit] Hobbit CONN questions
> 	>
> 	> Well it depends whether you are using fping or hobbitping -
> 	> try reading the
> 	> man pages, which can be accessed from the Help menu of the web 
> page.
> 	>
> 	> This tells you how many pings, what happens when the first
> 	> ping fails, the
> 	> timeout etc etc and yes it is configurable.
> 	
> 	Thanks you for you answer but I still can figure out what do a "conn" 
> exactly. Can you give the direct URL please ?
> 	
> 	
> 	> > -----Original Message-----
> 	> > Hello again,
> 	> >
> 	> >    I'm polishing a Hobbit installation. I would like to know
> 	> how the Hobbit
> 	> > server handle the "conn" step. I guess it's a couple of 
> 	> ping, isn't it ?
> 	> >    How it works when a first ping doesn't not respond? How
> 	> many packet are
> 	> > sent each time? What is the time-out? Can we configure it?
> 	> >
> 	> >    Thanks by advance for any informations related 
> to this ;) 
> 	> >
> 	> >        Johan
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