Hobbit CONN questions

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De : Hubbard, Greg L [mailto:user-d970b5e56ec9@xymon.invalid] Envoyé : jeudi 8 novembre 2007 17:20
À : user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Objet : RE: [hobbit] RE: [Disarmed] Re: [hobbit] Hobbit CONN questions

You may have to PURCHASE a tool if you want something to monitor ping response times, which are notoriously unreliable as an indicator of anything.

GLH 

Thanks for your answer but I don't really want to monitor the response times. I'm just wondering what triggers in the Hobbit code is used to make a RED ping status :   - after just one no echo-reply each 5min ?
  - after a couple of no echo-reply ? How much ?
  - What is the timeout used to declare the host unreachable ?

About smokeping : indeed, it looks very nice, I will check it out anyway ;)

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From: user-08b3b26d089f@xymon.invalid [mailto:user-08b3b26d089f@xymon.invalid]
Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2007 10:12 AM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: [hobbit] RE: [Disarmed] Re: [hobbit] Hobbit CONN questions

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De : Josh Luthman [mailto:user-4c45a83f15cb@xymon.invalid]
Envoyé : jeudi 8 novembre 2007 16:24
À : user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Objet : [Disarmed] Re: [hobbit] Hobbit CONN questions

It's very simple.  Conn is a ping test - it pings your host (with one > of two utilities).
Example:
192.168.1.1 <http://192.168.1.1>;   myrouter.domain.tld #
This will ping 192.168.1.1 <http://192.168.1.1>;  on every poll cycle > and report to you via the web pages and email alerts if you've > configured that in hobbit-alert.cfg

That means it does just a ping & if the ping doesn't not reply, it will display an RED alert ?
And if the ping make 200ms or 2000ms or 15000ms to answer ? 
  Thanks you

On 11/8/07, user-08b3b26d089f@xymon.invalid
<mailto:user-08b3b26d089f@xymon.invalid>  <user-08b3b26d089f@xymon.invalid> wrote:

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De : Morris, Chris (SS-IS)

[mailto:user-d235f3ed1ca2@xymon.invalid]

Envoyé : mardi 6 novembre 2007 15:54
À : ' user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid'
Objet : RE: [hobbit] Hobbit CONN questions

Well it depends whether you are using fping or hobbitping -
try reading the
man pages, which can be accessed from the Help menu of the web > page.

This tells you how many pings, what happens when the first
ping fails, the
timeout etc etc and yes it is configurable.

	
	Thanks you for you answer but I still can figure out what do a "conn" > exactly. Can you give the direct URL please ?
	
	

-----Original Message-----
Hello again,

   I'm polishing a Hobbit installation. I would like to know
how the Hobbit
server handle the "conn" step. I guess it's a couple of > 	> ping, isn't it ?
   How it works when a first ping doesn't not respond? How
many packet are
sent each time? What is the time-out? Can we configure it?

   Thanks by advance for any informations related > to this ;) > 	> >
       Johan

	
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