[hobbit] alert if up

[John Payne]

On Apr 29, 2009, at 3:14 AM, Ralph Mitchell wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 4:14 PM, John Payne <john at sackheads.org>  
> wrote:
> I thought there was a way to do this.... but in some cases, i'd  
> really like an alert to fire if certain IP addresses _become_  
> pingable.  Is this possible in bb-hosts or only with some alert  
> scripting?
>
> bb-hosts man page says:
>
> conn
> The "conn" test (which does a ping of the host) is enabled for all  
> hosts by default, and normally you just want to disable it using  
> "noconn" or "noping". However, on the rare occasion where you may  
> want to check that a host is NOT up, you can specify it as an  
> explicit test, and use the normal test modifiers, e.g. "!conn" will  
> be green when the host is NOT up, and red if it does appear on the  
> network.

Thanks.... selective blindness on my part I guess :)

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