[hobbit] Secondary ping?

[Geoff Hallford]

So, you need to know when HostA can't ping HostB? Is this because it is a
cluster or something?

I would suggest a simple vbscript on HostA and HostB that pings the other
and puts the results (green or red) in a file. Then just pass that to BBWin
or use bbsend.exe as an alternative to Hobbit. You could call the new status
column something like 'cluster' or 'interconnect' ... whatever.

I don't think that route or anything will work for this, as these are not
routers are they?


On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 6:02 AM, michael nemeth <michael.nemeth at lmco.com>wrote:

> No one has any input? Going to start working this issue myself soon.
> michael nemeth wrote:
>
>> The Network problem IS exactly what I want to detect! Ward, Martin wrote:
>>
>>> Michael,
>>>
>>> What exactly are you after? If the problem is that HostA cannot ping
>>> HostB all the time then this points to a networking issue: Firewall?
>>> Dodgy network cable? Too much traffic and too short a time-out?
>>>
>>> If your Hobbit server can ping both hosts then it's doing its job and
>>> there are no problems, with Hobbit at least...
>>>
>>> |\/|artin
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: michael nemeth [mailto:michael.nemeth at lmco.com] Sent: 14 August
>>> 2008 16:40
>>> To: hobbit at hswn.dk
>>> Subject: [hobbit] Secondary ping?
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>>>
>>> Heres the problem my hobbit server can ping HostA and HostB but SOMETIMES
>>> HostA and HostB
>>> cannot ping each other .  Besides a client side script, anyone think of a
>>> way to do this  and take advantage of
>>> hobbit functionality. BBNET?  route ? something else?
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