PingER2 in slac resides under /afs/slac/package/pinger/pinger2/share/pinger/. This directory contains all the scripts, needed by PingER2 except for lynx, ping,ping6,dig and other similar binaries. The directory contains:
<AlarmCmd>echo "%message\n-----------------\n" >> /afs/slac.stanford.edu/package/pinger/pinger2/share/pinger/pinger.log </AlarmCmd> |
<MaxProcessCount>25</MaxProcessCount> <PingV4Cmd>/bin/ping \-n \-w %deadline \-c %count \-i %interval \-s %packetsize %destination</PingV4Cmd> <PingV6Cmd>/bin/ping6 \-n \-w %deadline \-c %count \-i %interval \-s %packetsize %destination</PingV6Cmd> <SrcName>pinger.slac.stanford.edu</SrcName> <Version>2.0.1</Version> <dnsV4Cmd>/afs/slac/package/pinger/pinger2/share/pinger/dnsV4Cmd.pl %destination</dnsV4Cmd> <dnsV6Cmd>/usr/bin/dig \-t aaaa \+short %destination</dnsV6Cmd> <doRandomWait>false</doRandomWait> <modifiedTime>Tue Feb 9 17:17:31 2010</modifiedTime> <waitInterval>30</waitInterval> |
The main, perl script to do all the PingER2 tasks, including ping.
There are logs at:
\[slaconly\][pinger_startup.pl|http://www-dev.slac.stanford.edu/cgi-wrap/scriptdoc.pl?name=pinger_startup.pl] |
This script, alleviates the need to pass multiple arguments to PingER2 everytime it needs to be run. It has some default values, that make the cronjob and the whole running a clean process.
With out this script a typical run would look like:
cd /afs/slac.stanford.edu/package/pinger/pinger2/share/pinger ; perl /afs/slac.stanford.edu/package/pinger/pinger2/share/pinger/pinger2.pl > /afs/slac.stanford.edu/package/pinger/pinger2/share/pinger/pingerCronStat.stdout; |
However using pinger_startup.pl, this becomes:
/afs/slac/package/pinger/pinger2/share/pinger/pinger_startup.pl |
This Command Utilises, Perl utility gethostbyname() to determine, the ip address of a host, given a hostname.