[xymon] test ssh on private ip

[Ryan Novosielski]

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On 02/07/2011 04:38 PM, Steve Holmes wrote:
> [Running 4.2.3 on solaris with a lot of linux clients]
> 
> We have a heavily (some would say 'insanely') firewalled environment.
> For some clients, I need to be able to test ssh on the private ip
> address, but even though I have the private ip in the bb-hosts file and
> have specified testip, the ssh test insists on testing the public
> address (which it is getting from DNS, apparently) and fails because the
> firewall doesn't allow ssh connections on that interface. 
> 
> Is there a way to do this?

The way I do this is to have two separate network test machines (I run
them in two Solaris zones, one on the inside network and one on the
outside network). I test some services from one and some from the other
(depending on where they're supposed to be accessible from).

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