Thanks so much!

Thanks,

Tom Schmitt

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Salt Lake City, UT 84116

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From: Ralph Mitchell [mailto:ralphmitchell at gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 23, 2010 6:42 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] TS - Access to the ACKCODE after the notification but before restored to service

I don't think there's any one place to get this info. Once you know what you're looking for, you'll find bits scattered through the manual pages for bb-hosts and maybe bbtest-net.

o - open - is the service open?

r - reverse - reverse the status of the test. e.g. !conn would show red if you *can* ping it

d - dialup - don't show red if the host is unreachable

a - always true - shows true state of the service. same as noclear in bb-hosts

s - silent - make the test silent, not sending data to the host. e.g. ssh:s

t - testip - test by ip from bb-hosts, instead of doing dns lookup

l - dodns - set if a DNS lookup is needed

e - dnserror - set if the host's IP can't be found

I picked those bits out of the bbtest-net source files.

In bbnet/bbtest-net.c:

            flags[i++] = (t->open ? 'O' : 'o');

            flags[i++] = (t->reverse ? 'R' : 'r');

            flags[i++] = ((t->dialup || t->host->dialup) ? 'D' :

'd');

            flags[i++] = (t->alwaystrue ? 'A' : 'a');

            flags[i++] = (t->silenttest ? 'S' : 's');

            flags[i++] = (t->host->testip ? 'T' : 't');

            flags[i++] = (t->host->dodns ? 'L' : 'l');

            flags[i++] = (t->host->dnserror ? 'E' : 'e');

            flags[i++] = '\0';

In bbnet/bbtest-net.h (not necessarily in this order):

    int open;             /* Is the service open ? NB: Shows true

state of service, ignores flags */

    int reverse;          /* "!testname" flag */

    int dialup;            /* "?testname" flag */

    int alwaystrue;     /* "~testname" flag */

    int silenttest;       /* "testname:s" flag */

    int testip;            /* testip flag (dont do dns lookups on

hostname) */

    int dodns;           /* set while loading tests if we need to do

a DNS lookup */

    int dnserror;        /* set internally if we cannot find the

host's IP */

Ralph Mitchell

On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 12:04 PM, <d.tom.schmitt at l-3com.com> wrote:

I did not realize it was the 'cookie' value.

Does anyone know what the Flags stand for:

  e.g.  ordAstLe

Is there a chart somewhere showing the values?

Thanks,

Tom Schmitt

Senior IT Staff - R&D

Salt Lake City, UT 84116

Phone (801) 594-3030

Cell (801) 231-7230

eFax (413) 480-6873

D.Tom.Schmitt at L-3Com.com

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From: d.tom.schmitt at L-3com.com [mailto:d.tom.schmitt at L-3com.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 23, 2010 9:17 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: [hobbit] TS - Access to the ACKCODE after the notification but before restored to service

Hobbit [876756] Tom-Cisco-7940:conn CRITICAL (RED)

          ACKCODE

Is there a report that you can run from 'bb' program that will give you the ACKCODE of a device that is still down?

If a device is down for an extended period of time, I want to send out an escalation email and want to include the ACKCODE

so that the manager/supervisor can respond immediately.

Thanks,

Tom Schmitt

Senior IT Staff - R&D

Salt Lake City, UT 84116

Phone (801) 594-3030

Cell (801) 231-7230

eFax (413) 480-6873

D.Tom.Schmitt at L-3Com.com

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