[hobbit] Secondary ping?

[Geoff Hallford]

Okay, just if you are testing connectivity from HostA to HostB it has to
route *through* HostA and as HostA isn't a router, using the route tag only
tests from Hobbit to HostB or HostA, not from Host to Host.

I don't know enough about bbnet to comment on that aspect though. Script
will work (shell, perl, ...) if all else fails. You could use bb (through
client) to send results or bbsend.pl.

'Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded.' --Yogi Berra


On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 10:01 AM, michael nemeth <michael.nemeth at lmco.com>wrote:

>  Ive unix and linux system but script is a script.
> >Is this because it is a cluster or something?
> No I think it because the network team makes changes but tell no one AND
> the attitude "well it works for Windoze boxes" .
>
> But it may and I believe  can be  due too  other network problems, like too
> much  traffic.
> Probable what I'll  is a script .  Now ,I don't think that a route actually
> need to be network hardware; at least I've routed though servers before  in
> one card out another.
>
> I was thinking of  something like  hobbit server
> xxx.xxx.xxx Hostb # route:router1,Hosta route2,router3
>
> Or setting up a bbnet on Hosta
>
> Or as you say a script.
>
> Looking to see If others have handed this problem through hobbit before I
> did something or if some would say ; "Yes use route or bbnet would be better
> choice  or something else ."!
>
>
> Geoff Hallford wrote:
>
> 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?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 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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