Re: {bb} Testing a ping from another machine?

[Philip Clark <bblist@cannae.uklinux.net>]

On Wed, 2005-05-25 at 19:39, Kimberly McKinnis wrote:
> This is going to sound very silly, but I'm wondering if there's a
> solution and I'm just not thinking out of the box enough. The machines
> at my data center (where the BB server is located) can't talk to the VPN
> due to certain routing. The VPN has been flakey and I want to monitor it
> somehow. I have a handful of machines at the office that can talk to
> both the VPN and BB. Is there a way to bounce some sort of check through
> another machine to check if the VPN is alive, and send it back to BB? 
> 
> I could probably write some basic shell script to ping and run it in
> bb/ext/ from another client, but is there a better way? 
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> ~Kim

If I understand you correctly, your BB server is remote and cannot see
your local machines, and you would like to monitor the VPN for local
to remote connectivity.

You could install a local client and run an "ext" script to report
back to the server. There would be no need for the normal local
test unless you need them too. You might even avoid the client
altogether and just run a bit of perl from cron.

You wouldn't get red and yellow conditions this way, only green and
purple, so you would need to use a small enough purple delay to get
the sensitivity you need.

The second option that occurs to me would be to run a local BBNET
and BBPAGER, which only monitors your remote server. It might be
overkill, but would need much less hacking.

Cheers, Phil.



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