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Need help on telnet fine tune in bb-services

list T.J. Yang
Mon, 02 Jul 2007 22:14:55 -0500
Message-Id: <user-b49f2533946e@xymon.invalid>

From: "Tod Hansmann" <user-b6e28cb93fa4@xymon.invalid>
Reply-To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
To: <user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid>
Subject: RE: [hobbit] Need help on telnet fine tune in bb-services
Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2007 15:19:34 -0600

It looks like you have some odd configuration, as the telnet column
should end up a separate test for each host.  So you'd see a page with
something like:

Some Header	conn	telnet	           info	     trends
Login1.domains.tld	green	red/yellow	green	green
Login2.domains.tld	green	green		green	green
Login3.domains.tld	green	green		green	green
Sorry, Looks like my description of my problem confused you.

I did get above layout in hb server page, the problem I am having is that
telnetd on login1 is failing(can't give out the login prompt) but it still 
show green under telnet column.

So either you have a configuration problem in your bb-hosts, or it's not
actually failing for the box that is doing the network tests.

As far as the response when you telnet manually, that's a configuration
on the telnet server, not hobbit.  As such I can't speak for it.
I am looking for a way to tighten the telnet test.  I read the manpage, 
there is  "expect" command to expect a string. I will try this command to 
see what happened.

Thanks for the reply

tj
Tod Hansmann
Network Engineer


-----Original Message-----
From: T.J. Yang [mailto:user-8e841282cda5@xymon.invalid]
Sent: Monday, July 02, 2007 8:07 AM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: [hobbit] Need help on telnet fine tune in bb-services

I have 3 login servers(login1-3), login1 is in trouble (taking long long

time to see the prompt and then failed)

The current configuration  in bb-services for telnet monitoring is like
following,

[telnet]
   options banner,telnet
   port 23

Above configuration will make all three servesr show up as green because

telnetd answer the poll.

I am looking for better configuration option to fail the login1 testing
since it is failing the telnet service to telnet clients.

Also both login2 and login3 are normal but only on login3's telnet hb
page,
I see the full login banner. On login2, I only see the OS version
number(1st
line of banner ?), why the difference ?

R1:  bb-services manpage,

T.J. Yang

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