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list Joseph Kezar · Fri, 14 Apr 2006 10:52:12 -0400 ·
I have a branch on my network that returns about 85% of pings(don't ask).
Is there someway I can tune fping(or ping) to try more than 1 time before
setting the conn to red and notifiying people?  It would be nice if it could
send a couple of pings and only care that at least one ICMP echo gets back.

Thanks,
Joe Kezar
list Larry Barber · Fri, 14 Apr 2006 09:58:08 -0500 ·
Look for the "badconn" entry in the bb-hosts man page.

Thanks,
Larry Barber
quoted from Joseph Kezar

On 4/14/06, Joseph Kezar <user-575ccb58cf86@xymon.invalid> wrote:
I have a branch on my network that returns about 85% of pings(don't ask).
Is there someway I can tune fping(or ping) to try more than 1 time before
setting the conn to red and notifiying people?  It would be nice if it could
send a couple of pings and only care that at least one ICMP echo gets back.

Thanks,
Joe Kezar
list Henrik Størner · Fri, 14 Apr 2006 18:20:07 +0200 ·
quoted from Joseph Kezar
On Fri, Apr 14, 2006 at 10:52:12AM -0400, Joseph Kezar wrote:
I have a branch on my network that returns about 85% of pings(don't ask).
Is there someway I can tune fping(or ping) to try more than 1 time before
setting the conn to red and notifiying people?  It would be nice if it could
send a couple of pings and only care that at least one ICMP echo gets back.
The FPINGCMD setting is used to define the exact "fping" command that
Hobbit runs. So you can add any options you like for fping to that
setting in hobbitserver.cfg, to make it try harder to reach a host.


Henrik
list Joseph Kezar · Fri, 14 Apr 2006 13:32:56 -0400 ·
On my hobbit web display I have these errors that cause it to turn red.

PING 159.105.x.x (159.105.x.x) 56(84) bytes of data.

--- 159.105.x.x ping statistics ---
1 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 0ms

Did I somehow build hobbit without fping?  and it is falling back on ping?
quoted from Henrik Størner


On 4/14/06, Henrik Stoerner <user-ce4a2c883f75@xymon.invalid> wrote:
On Fri, Apr 14, 2006 at 10:52:12AM -0400, Joseph Kezar wrote:
I have a branch on my network that returns about 85% of pings(don't
ask).
Is there someway I can tune fping(or ping) to try more than 1 time
before
setting the conn to red and notifiying people?  It would be nice if it
could
send a couple of pings and only care that at least one ICMP echo gets
back.
The FPINGCMD setting is used to define the exact "fping" command that
Hobbit runs. So you can add any options you like for fping to that
setting in hobbitserver.cfg, to make it try harder to reach a host.


Henrik

list Henrik Størner · Fri, 14 Apr 2006 23:22:12 +0200 ·
quoted from Joseph Kezar
On Fri, Apr 14, 2006 at 01:32:56PM -0400, Joseph Kezar wrote:
On my hobbit web display I have these errors that cause it to turn red.

PING 159.105.x.x (159.105.x.x) 56(84) bytes of data.

--- 159.105.x.x ping statistics ---
1 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 0ms

Did I somehow build hobbit without fping?  and it is falling back on ping?
Looks like the output from the old Big Brother network test. Check if
you still have one of those around, reporting data into Hobbit.

(No, Hobbit doesn't fall back to using ping).


Henrik