[hobbit] yellow/red warnings based on conn time

[Daniel J McDonald]

On Mon, 2005-03-07 at 11:23 -0500, Robert Edeker wrote:
> On Mon, 07 Mar 2005 10:17:10 -0600, Daniel J McDonald
> <dan.mcdonald at austinenergy.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, 2005-03-07 at 11:05 -0500, Robert Edeker wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > >   Is there a way to specify warn/panic thresholds for the ping test?
> > > I'm monitoring several routers and would like to send notification to
> > > the network admins if things start getting too slow.
> > 
> > man bb-hosts
> > search for BADCONN
> 
> I was looking at badconn, but I'm not sure it's going to do what I
> need.  My understanding is that you can specify different thresholds
> for failure instead of the test going red immediately.
> 
> I'm wondering if there is a setting to warn based on the result of the
> successful response time. eg: The ping response comes back, but it was
> 500ms which too  high for that are of the network.

Ah, then you want to run mrtg with ping-probe, and use bbmrtg.pl to
alert hobbit of the data collected.

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Daniel J McDonald, CCIE # 2495, CNX
Austin Energy

dan.mcdonald at austinenergy.com