Hello, I work for an organization that has about 100 firewalls deployed. We currently use hobbit to ping all the interfaces to see if they are up. Out of about 500 interfaces we are pinging there are about 10 that will show up as being down on the hobbit web pages but when you ping from the hobbit server manually you get a response that they are up. Any ideas as to why they would show up as down on the web pages but you get responses from manual pings. Is there somethign different about the pings used for the webpages?
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Kev,
you might want to download Ethereal, http://www.ethereal.com/, and monitor the ICMP traffic between the hobbit server and the remote host. You can filter on local and remote IP addresses to detect the differences between the server automated ping, versus, a manual ping from the server.
Gary
From: kev14380 at aol.com [mailto:kev14380 at aol.com] Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2007 2:55 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: [hobbit] Pinging Question
Hello, I work for an organization that has about 100 firewalls deployed. We currently use hobbit to ping all the interfaces to see if they are up. Out of about 500 interfaces we are pinging there are about 10 that will show up as being down on the hobbit web pages but when you ping from the hobbit server manually you get a response that they are up. Any ideas as to why they would show up as down on the web pages but you get responses from manual pings. Is there somethign different about the pings used for the webpages?
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I had a similar problem with web pages. Reducing the concurrency on the bbtest-net fixed the problem.
Thanks, Larry Barber
On 3/8/07, Gary Ciampa <Gary.Ciampa at sas.com> wrote:
Kev,
you might want to download Ethereal, http://www.ethereal.com/, and monitor the ICMP traffic between the hobbit server and the remote host. You can filter on local and remote IP addresses to detect the differences between the server automated ping, versus, a manual ping from the server.
Gary
*From:* kev14380 at aol.com [mailto:kev14380 at aol.com] *Sent:* Thursday, March 08, 2007 2:55 PM *To:* hobbit at hswn.dk *Subject:* [hobbit] Pinging Question
Hello, I work for an organization that has about 100 firewalls deployed. We currently use hobbit to ping all the interfaces to see if they are up. Out of about 500 interfaces we are pinging there are about 10 that will show up as being down on the hobbit web pages but when you ping from the hobbit server manually you get a response that they are up. Any ideas as to why they would show up as down on the web pages but you get responses from manual pings. Is there somethign different about the pings used for the webpages?
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