network testing tool for single host/service 🔗 link

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?

Frédéric Mangeant wrote:

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,

Dominique Frise a écrit :

Frédéric Mangeant wrote:

Thanks Frédéric, but how can you test ftp service only on hades?

On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 09:11:45AM +0100, Dominique Frise wrote:

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?

Henrik Stoerner wrote:

On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 09:11:45AM +0100, Dominique Frise wrote:

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?

I don't understand what it is you're trying to do. If you've written
a script which essentially just checks a URL, then why can't you just
use the normal Hobbit network tester ?

Even if your script does some checking on the content of the data
it gets back, you should be able to do that just as easily with Hobbit's built-in content checks.

As Frederic wrote, you can test a single host with the Hobbit network
tester by passing the hostname on the command line. If you just want
to see the test result (without sending it to the Hobbit server), you
can run it as

   bbcmd bbtest-net --no-update my.host.name

The only reason I can think of, is if you want to check the results
of the network tests before putting them into the bb-hosts file.
This can be done with the following script:

#!/bin/sh
echo "0.0.0.0 testhost # noconn $*" >/tmp/bbh.tmp
bbcmd sh -c "BBHOSTS=/tmp/bbh.tmp BBTMP=/tmp bbtest-net --no-update testhost"
rm /tmp/bbh.tmp
exit 0

e.g. save it as check.sh, then run

    check.sh http://test.example.com/


Regards,
Henrik