Re: {bb} BB information

[Henrik Storner <henrik-bb@hswn.dk>]

In <D841DFB0C8860446B7EEAECBA1AC1AC70582CEFA@xchange.national.aaa.com> "Bell, Ray" <rbell@national.aaa.com> writes:

>When the bb sever goes out to the client and check things you are
>monitoring please explain how they verify the following:

>ftp                    "do they ftp to the port to see if the process
>work or see if the process is running?"
>smtp                "do the check to see if the process is running?"
>telnet               "?"
>ssh                  "?"
>conn                "They ping the device to see if it alive"

The tests you mention above are all network tests that run from the
BBNET server. These tests actually try to connect to the ftp, smtp,
telnet and ssh services on the host - or ping it - across the network,
so failures can be caused either by the service being stopped on the
host, or by some network problem along the way. In fact, it may also
be caused simply by the BBNET server not being able to lookup the
IP-address for the hostname you listed in the bb-hosts file (if you
want to test the host by the IP-address given in bb-hosts, you should
put "testip" on the same line as the host entry).

Henrik
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