[hobbit] Ping only when another machine is not pingable

[Henrik Stoerner]

In <g9pjm2$pg3$1 at ger.gmane.org> "Eric Jacobs" <eric.jacobs at thomastechsolutions.com> writes:

>Monitoring a couple of Infoblox devices, each with a "LAN" port and a "HA" 
>port. I'm supposed to monitor all 4 ports but, as it turns out, on active 
>device in this High-availability pair, the HA port is not pingable. So, I 
>would like to have the "conn" column go clear instead of red. Been looking 
>at "depends" but can't figure out how to make that work for this scenario.

Don't know if it helps, but you might want to use the "conn=best,IP1,IP2"
setting - this will ping both IP's, and report green if one or more are
responding.

See bb-hosts man-page.


Henrik