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Ping question

list Thomas Kern
Wed, 16 May 2007 13:04:22 -0400
Message-Id: <user-d6f8185870c5@xymon.invalid>

I don't know if the hobbit client itself can do that, but I think it
would be easy enough to write a custom test script to be run at Client-B
and report the status of Client-B/ProdServer connectivity to the real
hobbit server via the old STATUS message functionality.

/Thomas Kern
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-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Newman [mailto:user-e96740e73ca8@xymon.invalid] Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2007 12:52 PM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: [hobbit] Ping question

Hi,

I have 1 hobbit server that successfully monitors all of my servers.
(with all of the problems everyone mails about, just had to say that
up front heh)

But yes, I do have a question :-)

Hobbit server A monitors client B. Client B has a a private connection
to a network that nobody else can be on except for it. Client B talks
to some production server over that network. Today, that production
server went down. Now I have been asked to do the following:

I need to be able to ping monitor the production server. I can ping
the production server from Client B. Hobbit server A can ping client
B, but not the prod. server (as only client B has that ability)

So in other words "Hobbit - I want you to ping prod server through
client B" - the other way would be "Client B - I want you to ping
prod. server and report the status to Hobbit"

Help! :-)

Thanks,
Jeff