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

[Josh Luthman]

I'm not sure on the values, but it will go green with a response, yellow
with packet loss (not delays, just lost packets) and red when there is no
response after a few packets lost.

On 11/8/07, Hubbard, Greg L <greg.hubbard at eds.com> wrote:
>
> 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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