[hobbit] Secondary ping?

With route if is HostA is down for example (or unusable Im hoping ) I will not get a color change (yellow I think)?

Geoff Hallford wrote:

Okay, just if you are testing connectivity from HostA to HostB it has to route _through_ HostA and as HostA isn't a router, using the route tag only tests from Hobbit to HostB or HostA, not from Host to Host.

I don't know enough about bbnet to comment on that aspect though. Script will work (shell, perl, ...) if all else fails. You could use bb (through client) to send results or bbsend.pl.

'Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded.' --Yogi Berra

On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 10:01 AM, michael nemeth <michael.nemeth at lmco.com <mailto:michael.nemeth at lmco.com>> wrote:

Ive unix and linux system but script is a script.
>Is this because it is a cluster or something?
No I think it because the network team makes changes but tell no
one AND the attitude "well it works for Windoze boxes" .

But it may and I believe  can be  due too  other network problems,
like too much  traffic.
Probable what I'll  is a script .  Now ,I don't think that a route
actually need to be network hardware; at least I've routed though
servers before  in one card out another.

I was thinking of  something like  hobbit server
xxx.xxx.xxx Hostb # route:router1,Hosta route2,router3

Or setting up a bbnet on Hosta

Or as you say a script.

Looking to see If others have handed this problem through hobbit
before I did something or if some would say ; "Yes use route or
bbnet would be better choice  or something else ."!


Geoff Hallford wrote:

...

So, you need to know when HostA can't ping HostB? Is this because
it is a cluster or something?

I would suggest a simple vbscript on HostA and HostB that pings
the other and puts the results (green or red) in a file. Then
just pass that to BBWin or use bbsend.exe as an alternative to
Hobbit. You could call the new status column something like
'cluster' or 'interconnect' ... whatever.

I don't think that route or anything will work for this, as these
are not routers are they?


On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 6:02 AM, michael nemeth
<michael.nemeth at lmco.com <mailto:michael.nemeth at lmco.com>> wrote:

    No one has any input? Going to start working this issue
    myself soon.
    michael nemeth wrote:

        The Network problem IS exactly what I want to detect!
        Ward, Martin wrote:

            Michael,

            What exactly are you after? If the problem is that
            HostA cannot ping
            HostB all the time then this points to a networking
            issue: Firewall?
            Dodgy network cable? Too much traffic and too short a
            time-out?

            If your Hobbit server can ping both hosts then it's
            doing its job and
            there are no problems, with Hobbit at least...

            |\/|artin

            -----Original Message-----
            From: michael nemeth [mailto:michael.nemeth at lmco.com
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            2008 16:40
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            Subject: [hobbit] Secondary ping?


            Heres the problem my hobbit server can ping HostA and
            HostB but SOMETIMES HostA and HostB
            cannot ping each other .  Besides a client side
            script, anyone think of a way to do this  and take
            advantage of
            hobbit functionality. BBNET?  route ? something else?

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