Ping only when another machine is not pingable
Monitoring a couple of Infoblox devices, each with a "LAN" port and a "HA" port. I'm supposed to monitor all 4 ports but, as it turns out, on active device in this High-availability pair, the HA port is not pingable. So, I would like to have the "conn" column go clear instead of red. Been looking at "depends" but can't figure out how to make that work for this scenario.
Eric Jacobs
Make it "dialup"?
-----Original Message----- From: news on behalf of Eric Jacobs Sent: Thu 9/4/2008 04:24 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: [hobbit] Ping only when another machine is not pingable
Monitoring a couple of Infoblox devices, each with a "LAN" port and a "HA" port. I'm supposed to monitor all 4 ports but, as it turns out, on active device in this High-availability pair, the HA port is not pingable. So, I would like to have the "conn" column go clear instead of red. Been looking at "depends" but can't figure out how to make that work for this scenario.
Eric Jacobs
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In <g9pjm2$pg3$1 at ger.gmane.org> "Eric Jacobs" <eric.jacobs at thomastechsolutions.com> writes:
Monitoring a couple of Infoblox devices, each with a "LAN" port and a "HA" port. I'm supposed to monitor all 4 ports but, as it turns out, on active device in this High-availability pair, the HA port is not pingable. So, I would like to have the "conn" column go clear instead of red. Been looking at "depends" but can't figure out how to make that work for this scenario.
Don't know if it helps, but you might want to use the "conn=best,IP1,IP2" setting - this will ping both IP's, and report green if one or more are responding.
See bb-hosts man-page.
Henrik
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