[hobbit] ping and traceroute

[Dominique Frise]

Rolf Schrittenlocher wrote:
> Good morning,
> 
> this is an idea for a feature request. It would be nice if there would 
> happen a traceroute automatically if conn/ping fails. So the result of 
> traceroute could be displayed in addition to the negative ping results 
> and we would know if the problem is at in our net or outside.
> 
> Alternative: All standart tests of hobbit would allow to add scripts to 
> be executed once a test fails. So everyone can handle this as (s)he likes.
> 
> I wish all of you a silent pager the next days!
> Rolf
> 
This fearure is already available.

----Extract of bb-hosts man page----
...
      trace
           If the connectivity test fails, run a "traceroute"  and
           include the output from this in the status message from
           the failed connectivity test. Note: For this  to  work,
           you may have to define the TRACEROUTE environment vari-
           able, see hobbitserver.cfg(5)
...


Dominique
UNIL - University of Lausanne