On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 10:55:35PM +0200, Henrik Stoerner wrote:
The tricky part is your idea about tying this in with the other
network tests, to avoid polling the hosts that are down or disabled.
I can understand why (I know how long snmpget takes to timeout a
request) ... it's just an idea that I haven't heard before.
I think it's a great idea - it would certainly be useful for exactly
this kind of test where you want to avoid testing unreachable systems.
Adding this kind of filter to bbhostgrep should not be terribly
difficult - stay tuned.
A first attempt at implementing this is included in the latest
snapshot, available at http://www.hswn.dk/beta/ - or, to just
pick up the new utility, grab
http://www.hswn.dk/beta/snapshot/common/bbhostgrep.c
Just drop this file into the hobbit-4.1.2/common/ directory and
run "make".
This adds a new "--no-down" option to bbhostgrep. This causes it
to query the Hobbit server for information about the hosts that
have a non-green "conn" column (ping test); these hosts are
ignored and will not show up in the output from bbhostgrep.
You can also use "--no-down=SOMETEST". bbhostgrep will then
also query the Hobbit server for the current state of the
SOMETEST column for all hosts; if this column for a host has
status blue (disabled), then that host will also be ignored.
Note that this is in addition to the "conn" check.
Regards,
Henrik
To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to
hobbit-unsubscribe (at) hswn.dk