[xymon] test ssh on private ip

[Henrik Størner]

In <AANLkTi=_WQjQ9n=QvvmNwiZZ-5JDT9zTvNCu0a9RRCa9 at mail.gmail.com> Steve Holmes <sholmes42 at mac.com> writes:

>[Running 4.2.3 on solaris with a lot of linux clients]

>We have a heavily (some would say 'insanely') firewalled environment. For
>some clients, I need to be able to test ssh on the private ip address, but
>even though I have the private ip in the bb-hosts file and have specified
>testip, the ssh test insists on testing the public address (which it is
>getting from DNS, apparently) and fails because the firewall doesn't allow
>ssh connections on that interface.


"testip" *will* force Xymon to use the IP in bb-hosts as the destination
IP, *unless* you have the host listed twice in bb-hosts with conflicting
options and/or IP-adresses. This would be logged in the bb-network.log
file, and in the "bbtest" status message.


Regards,
Henrik