Setting up second network tester 🔗 link

On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 03:29:43PM -0500, Eric Jacobs wrote:

My Hobbit server does the display, network testing and alerting. Using the default 5 minute interval for network tests. Some have complained that connectivity tests to certain routers should happen more frequently. But, as far as I can see, network testing interval is an all or nothing variable. So I'm thinking of setting up second network tester and using NET variable in bb-hosts to have the particular routers in question tested by second network tester, running its tests more frequently.

Preamble done - now, how do I go about setting up second network tester? Configuring another server and disabling all unnecessary tasks in hobbitlaunch.cfg? If so, which will I need for the tester to work properly?

On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 03:29:43PM -0500, Eric Jacobs wrote:

My Hobbit server does the display, network testing and alerting. Using the
default 5 minute interval for network tests. Some have complained that
connectivity tests to certain routers should happen more frequently. But, as
far as I can see, network testing interval is an all or nothing variable. So
I'm thinking of setting up second network tester and using NET variable in
bb-hosts to have the particular routers in question tested by second network
tester, running its tests more frequently.

Preamble done - now, how do I go about setting up second network tester?
Configuring another server and disabling all unnecessary tasks in
hobbitlaunch.cfg? If so, which will I need for the tester to work properly?

You don't have to setup a different Hobbit server, if your current
server has enough capacity to run the network tests. E.g. use this
script "netchecks.sh":

 #!/bin/sh

 BBLOCATION=$1 bbtest-net --report=bbnet-$1 --ping --checkresponse
 exit 0

Then in your hobbitlaunch.cfg you have two (or more) entries:

 [net-std]
       ENVFILE /usr/lib/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitserver.cfg
CMD netchecks.sh standard
LOGFILE $BBSERVERLOGS/bb-network.log
INTERVAL 5m

 [net-frequent]
       ENVFILE /usr/lib/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitserver.cfg
CMD netchecks.sh frequent
LOGFILE $BBSERVERLOGS/bb-network.log
INTERVAL 1m

This runs two sets of network tests - one with 5 minute intervals,
the other with 1 minute intervals. Then in bb-hosts, flag each host with
"NET:standard" or "NET:frequent".


Regards,
Henrik

On Thursday 31 January 2008 22:29:43 Eric Jacobs wrote:

My Hobbit server does the display, network testing and alerting. Using the
default 5 minute interval for network tests. Some have complained that
connectivity tests to certain routers should happen more frequently. But,
as far as I can see, network testing interval is an all or nothing
variable. So I'm thinking of setting up second network tester and using NET
variable in bb-hosts to have the particular routers in question tested by
second network tester, running its tests more frequently.

Preamble done - now, how do I go about setting up second network tester?
Configuring another server and disabling all unnecessary tasks in
hobbitlaunch.cfg? If so, which will I need for the tester to work properly?

On Thursday 31 January 2008, Eric Jacobs wrote:

This runs two sets of network tests - one with 5 minute intervals,
the other with 1 minute intervals. Then in bb-hosts, flag each host with
"NET:standard" or "NET:frequent".


Regards,
Henrik

Thanks -

Looks like an excellent solution for now. But I would still like to learn
how to set up a second network tester. Due to recent merger and other
situations, it looks like we will be adding a large number of machines to
be monitored and I worry about capacity

eric