[hobbit] network testing tool for single host/service

Dominique Frise Dominique.Frise at unil.ch
Mon Mar 13 09:34:24 CET 2006


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



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