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network testing tool for single host/service

list Frédéric Mangeant
Mon, 13 Mar 2006 09:16:14 +0100
Message-Id: <user-4dab7e1616a8@xymon.invalid>

Dominique Frise a écrit :
Hi Henrik,

Using Big Brother for several years, we wrote quite a few custom server/side scripts where we used bbnet tool from BB.
This utility allowed us to test a single host/service pair on the command line.

Example:

URL=http://test.example.com

$BBHOME/bin/bbnet $URL > $BBTMP/HTTP_$PROC$$

Your -definitely better- tool bbtest-net is bounded to $BBHOSTS and it does not seem possible to test a single host/service like above.
A hack could be to redefine $BBHOSTS with a single entry before calling bbtest-net.
I there another possibility to to this?

Hi Dominique

you can use this :

$ /BB/hobbit/server/bin/bbcmd bbtest-net hades
2006-03-13 09:13:47 Using default environment file /BB/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitserver.cfg


All the parameters (like "--debug", to see the results before their transmission to hobbitd) can be added :


$ /BB/hobbit/server/bin/bbcmd bbtest-net hades --debug
2006-03-13 09:14:46 Using default environment file /BB/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitserver.cfg
Command: bbtest-net 'hades' '--debug'
Environment BBLOCATION=''
Environment CONNTEST='TRUE'
Environment IPTEST_2_CLEAR_ON_FAILED_CONN='TRUE'
[...]
2006-03-13 09:14:47 Calc content color host hades : 2006-03-13 09:14:47 Flushing combo message
      status hades.ssh green <!-- [flags:OrdastILe] --> Mon Mar 13 09:14:46 2006 ssh ok
      status hades.ftp green <!-- [flags:OrdastILe] --> Mon Mar 13 09:14:46 2006 ftp ok
      status hades.http green Mon Mar 13 09:14:46 2006: OK


Regards,

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Frédéric Mangeant

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