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

["Kimberly McKinnis" <kmckinnis@macrovision.com>]

Ahh that makes good sense. Thanks again! 

-----Original Message-----
From: PAUL WILLIAMSON [mailto:pwilliamson@mandtbank.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2005 4:47 PM
To: bb@bb4.com; Kimberly McKinnis
Subject: RE: {bb} Testing a ping from another machine?

If you have your BBDISPLAY defined as a BBNET server as well, remember
when you put those servers into the BBDISPLAY I think you want to mark
them as noconn on the BBDISPLAY server so you don't get alternating
green and red statuses.

Paul

>>> kmckinnis@macrovision.com 05/25/05 5:18 PM >>>
Oh. Well gosh, I knew you could do that but I never understood the true
purpose, aside from having a failover BB. How handy. Thanks! 

OT but, the last few times I've posted to the list, I've received this
auto-reply from someone: Symantec Mail Security detected prohibited
content in a message sent from your address (SYM:19398201643335482809)
from Administrator@encover.com. I'm unclear what is prohibited, but
that's fairly annoying.


-----Original Message-----
From: PAUL WILLIAMSON [mailto:pwilliamson@mandtbank.com]
Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2005 11:59 AM
To: bb@bb4.com; Kimberly McKinnis
Subject: Re: {bb} Testing a ping from another machine?

Just install BB (server) on your machine and define it as a bbnet server
and send the status for the machines you ping over to the bbdisplay.
Only define the machines you want to ping from that server in that
hosts' bb-hosts file.

Paul

>>> kmckinnis@macrovision.com 05/25/05 2:39 PM >>>
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

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