[hobbit] Secondary ping?

michael nemeth michael.nemeth at lmco.com
Thu Aug 28 16:50:12 CEST 2008


With  route if is HostA is down for example (or unusable Im hoping ) I 
will not  get a color change (yellow I think)?

Geoff Hallford wrote:
> 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 <mailto: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 <mailto: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
>>                 <mailto:michael.nemeth at lmco.com>] Sent: 14 August
>>                 2008 16:40
>>                 To: hobbit at hswn.dk <mailto: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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