On Thu, 2008-11-13 at 18:14 +0000, SebA wrote:
Additionally (ideally): I would like to know results of continuous
pings. Rather than just sending a few pings every x minutes and
seeing the performance of those, it would be nice to have continuous,
or at least pings that are continuous for the duration specifed in the
new bb-hosts flag I have suggested above, e.g. at 5 or 10 second
intervals (so as not to overload routers or links), and to report the
results of these tests every x minutes (again, ideally, defined by the
new tag I have suggested above).
I solve that particular problem by dumping all of my syslogs from all
routers into a common syslog server, then watch for routing protocol
state changes (EIGRP up or down). When I see a change down, I send a
red message, and when I see an up, I send a green message.
It's a little more complicated than that, since I have to maintain state
for all of these tests over several years. The module I wrote is
bb-eigrp, and it's on deadcat, but works fine with xymon
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Daniel J McDonald, CCIE #2495, CISSP #78281, CNX
Austin Energy
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