Min, The tools we're talking about here are manual, not automated.
The idea is that you select an interface, click on "Tools" and you will be able to do a ping or traceroute from the jffnms server, over the web. Thats it. What you are requesting is another completly different thing and more complex. Javier Min Qiu wrote: >>- Ping/Trace Tools: ping or a trace to any interface with an ip > > address. > > This could be very useful if we do it right. Keep in mind > that trace could spend a lot of time if something is down > in the middle of the path (waiting the timeout). Typically, > when the monitoring system/LAN has issue, the entire wall > will be painted red and every things are slowed. Of cause, > if the ping/trace find out where is the problem, jffnms can > stop polling/pinging the rest 2000 interfaces and wasting > time simply to wait timeouts. > > Here is what I did before (simplified): > 1) create a list of IPs and did a trace on them (daily or > weekly, depends on the size of the list/need), which in > turn build a list of <IP, previous IP>s > 2) fping the IPs, -> IP success list and IP failed list. > 3) skips IP that have its previous IP in the IP failed list. > and alert the remaining IPs in the failed list. (I did > another trace on this limited list to pin point where > the ping stopped) > 4) clear previous alarms if they are in the IP success list. > > Some people may argue that there could be more than one > paths to an IP and above scheme may not accurately reflect > the network. But it never failed me. > > Min > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by Demarc: > A global provider of Threat Management Solutions. > Download our HomeAdmin security software for free today! > http://www.demarc.com/info/Sentarus/hamr30 > _______________________________________________ > jffnms-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jffnms-users -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Javier Szyszlican, Project Leader, JFFNMS [EMAIL PROTECTED] I hope JFFNMS or I were helpful to you, if you can, please donate at http://jffnms.org/donate ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by Demarc: A global provider of Threat Management Solutions. Download our HomeAdmin security software for free today! http://www.demarc.com/info/Sentarus/hamr30 _______________________________________________ jffnms-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jffnms-users
