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Ping only when another machine is not pingable

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list Eric Jacobs · Thu, 4 Sep 2008 17:24:17 -0400 ·
Monitoring a couple of Infoblox devices, each with a "LAN" port and a "HA" port. I'm supposed to monitor all 4 ports but, as it turns out, on active device in this High-availability pair, the HA port is not pingable. So, I would like to have the "conn" column go clear instead of red. Been looking at "depends" but can't figure out how to make that work for this scenario.

Eric Jacobs
list Greg L Hubbard · Fri, 5 Sep 2008 07:49:15 -0500 ·
Make it "dialup"?
quoted from Eric Jacobs


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Subject: [hobbit]  Ping only when another machine is not pingable
 Monitoring a couple of Infoblox devices, each with a "LAN" port and a "HA" port. I'm supposed to monitor all 4 ports but, as it turns out, on active device in this High-availability pair, the HA port is not pingable. So, I would like to have the "conn" column go clear instead of red. Been looking at "depends" but can't figure out how to make that work for this scenario.

Eric Jacobs
list Henrik Størner · Tue, 30 Sep 2008 12:26:01 +0000 (UTC) ·
quoted from Eric Jacobs
In <g9pjm2$pg3$user-c17d2b339195@xymon.invalid> "Eric Jacobs" <user-a7d0190671dd@xymon.invalid> writes:
Monitoring a couple of Infoblox devices, each with a "LAN" port and a "HA" port. I'm supposed to monitor all 4 ports but, as it turns out, on active device in this High-availability pair, the HA port is not pingable. So, I would like to have the "conn" column go clear instead of red. Been looking at "depends" but can't figure out how to make that work for this scenario.
Don't know if it helps, but you might want to use the "conn=best,IP1,IP2"
setting - this will ping both IP's, and report green if one or more are
responding.

See bb-hosts man-page.


Henrik