RE: [hobbit] TS - Access to the ACKCODE after the notification but before restored to service

[d.tom.schmitt (at) L-3com.com]

Thanks so much!

 

Thanks,

 

Tom Schmitt

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From: Ralph Mitchell [mailto:ralphmitchell (at) gmail.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, February 23, 2010 6:42 PM
To: hobbit (at) hswn.dk
Subject: Re: [hobbit] TS - Access to the ACKCODE after the notification
but before restored to service

 

I don't think there's any one place to get this info.  Once you know
what you're looking for, you'll find bits scattered through the manual
pages for bb-hosts and maybe bbtest-net.

 

   o - open            - is the service open?

   r - reverse         - reverse the status of the test. e.g. !conn
would show red if you *can* ping it  

   d - dialup          - don't show red if the host is unreachable

   a - always true  - shows true state of the service.  same as noclear
in bb-hosts

   s - silent           - make the test silent, not sending data to the
host.  e.g. ssh:s

   t - testip           - test by ip from bb-hosts, instead of doing dns
lookup 

   l - dodns          - set if a DNS lookup is needed

   e - dnserror      - set if the host's IP can't be found

 

I picked those bits out of the bbtest-net source files.

 

In bbnet/bbtest-net.c:

 

                flags[i++] = (t->open ? 'O' : 'o');

                flags[i++] = (t->reverse ? 'R' : 'r');

                flags[i++] = ((t->dialup || t->host->dialup) ? 'D' :
'd');

                flags[i++] = (t->alwaystrue ? 'A' : 'a');

                flags[i++] = (t->silenttest ? 'S' : 's');

                flags[i++] = (t->host->testip ? 'T' : 't');

                flags[i++] = (t->host->dodns ? 'L' : 'l');

                flags[i++] = (t->host->dnserror ? 'E' : 'e');

                flags[i++] = '\0';

 

In bbnet/bbtest-net.h (not necessarily in this order):

 

        int open;             /* Is the service open ? NB: Shows true
state of service, ignores flags */

        int reverse;          /* "!testname" flag */

        int dialup;            /* "?testname" flag */

        int alwaystrue;     /* "~testname" flag */

        int silenttest;       /* "testname:s" flag */

        int testip;            /* testip flag (dont do dns lookups on
hostname) */

        int dodns;           /* set while loading tests if we need to do
a DNS lookup */

        int dnserror;        /* set internally if we cannot find the
host's IP */

 

 

Ralph Mitchell

 

 

On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 12:04 PM, <d.tom.schmitt (at) l-3com.com> wrote:

I did not realize it was the 'cookie' value.

 

Does anyone know what the Flags stand for:

      e.g.  ordAstLe

 

Is there a chart somewhere showing the values?

 

 

Thanks,

 

Tom Schmitt

Senior IT Staff - R&D

Salt Lake City, UT  84116

Phone (801) 594-3030

Cell      (801) 231-7230

eFax    (413) 480-6873

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From: d.tom.schmitt (at) L-3com.com [mailto:d.tom.schmitt (at) L-3com.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, February 23, 2010 9:17 AM
To: hobbit (at) hswn.dk
Subject: [hobbit] TS - Access to the ACKCODE after the notification but
before restored to service

 

Hobbit [876756] Tom-Cisco-7940:conn CRITICAL (RED)

              ACKCODE

 

Is there a report that you can run from 'bb' program that will give you
the ACKCODE of a device that is still down?

If a device is down for an extended period of time, I want to send out
an escalation email and want to include the ACKCODE

so that the manager/supervisor can respond immediately.

 

Thanks,

 

Tom Schmitt

Senior IT Staff - R&D

Salt Lake City, UT  84116

Phone (801) 594-3030

Cell      (801) 231-7230

eFax    (413) 480-6873

D.Tom.Schmitt (at) L-3Com.com

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