Re: {bb} Testing Port 80 (not http)

[Eric van de Meerakker <emee-bb@rhodix.nl>]

Hi Shane,


On Wed, 2004-11-24 at 13:55, Shane Presley wrote:
> I want to test port 80, but it doesn't run a standard web server.  It
> runs a special citrix XML server.  When I use bb/bbgen to do a
> standard http test I get a red alert:
> 
> [...]How should I setup my bb-hosts file?  I just want to connect to 80 and
> make sure it's up?

If you don't mind adding an extra column to your display page, the
easiest way is to define a new network test with a name other than
"http" on port 80. I've set up the network test named "www" for port 80
and that works fine (it can also be used to make sure nothing is running
on port 80, e.g. https-only web servers).

The procedure is as follows:

     1. add "www" to the BBNETSVC variable in bbdef.sh of
        bbdef-server.sh
     2. add "www:80" to the host entry in the bb-hosts file for the host
        you want to test. (You can use "!www:80" if you want to test
        that nothing runs on port 80). Alternatively, you can add    
        "www     80/tcp" to /etc/services and just put "www" in the
        bb-hosts file.
     3. restart BB on your BB server(s)


Hope this helps,

Eric.


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