[hobbit] Extension of bbmrtg.pl: check on link down

Buchan Milne bgmilne at staff.telkomsa.net
Wed Nov 19 10:56:43 CET 2008


On Wednesday 19 November 2008 10:25:08 W.J.M. Nelis wrote:

> I am wondering what you mean which "generally". This modification is
> intended to be used in specific situations. In our case redundancy build
> in the network may mask the failure of one connection (trunk). The users
> won't notice the failure, but the network administrator should know
> about it. On the other hand, I think the extension to bbmrtg.pl is
> generally usable for those who have this specific need.

Devmon does all this for me without any hacks (as it has separate tests for 
the interface status and interface load) ... and the new devmon weathermap 
script will actually show any links down as red ...




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