Re: [hobbit] network testing tool for single host/service

[Dominique Frise <Dominique.Frise (at) unil.ch>]

Frédéric Mangeant wrote:
> Dominique Frise a écrit :
>
> > Hi Henrik,
> >
> > Using Big Brother for several years, we wrote quite a few custom 
> > server/side scripts where we used bbnet tool from BB.
> > This utility allowed us to test a single host/service pair on the 
> > command line.
> >
> > Example:
> >
> > URL=http://test.example.com
> >
> > $BBHOME/bin/bbnet $URL > $BBTMP/HTTP_$PROC$$
> >
> > Your -definitely better- tool bbtest-net is bounded to $BBHOSTS and it 
> > does not seem possible to test a single host/service like above.
> > A hack could be to redefine $BBHOSTS with a single entry before 
> > calling bbtest-net.
> > I there another possibility to to this?
>
>
>
> Hi Dominique
>
> you can use this :
>
> $ /BB/hobbit/server/bin/bbcmd bbtest-net hades
> 2006-03-13 09:13:47 Using default environment file 
> /BB/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitserver.cfg
>
>
> All the parameters (like "--debug", to see the results before their 
> transmission to hobbitd) can be added :
>
>
> $ /BB/hobbit/server/bin/bbcmd bbtest-net hades --debug
> 2006-03-13 09:14:46 Using default environment file 
> /BB/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitserver.cfg
> Command: bbtest-net 'hades' '--debug'
> Environment BBLOCATION=''
> Environment CONNTEST='TRUE'
> Environment IPTEST_2_CLEAR_ON_FAILED_CONN='TRUE'
> [...]
> 2006-03-13 09:14:47 Calc content color host hades : 2006-03-13 09:14:47 
> Flushing combo message
>      status hades.ssh green <!-- [flags:OrdastILe] --> Mon Mar 13 
> 09:14:46 2006 ssh ok
>      status hades.ftp green <!-- [flags:OrdastILe] --> Mon Mar 13 
> 09:14:46 2006 ftp ok
>      status hades.http green Mon Mar 13 09:14:46 2006: OK
>
>
> Regards,

Thanks Frédéric, but how can you test ftp service only on hades?


Dominique