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- Login to tulip database (username and password available in escrow -c iepm iepmacct)
- Change the database to tulip by cmd
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Using the results from the analysis script we can identify the hosts and their success percentages. We opted to disable all the hosts which were having success less than 20%. The above mentioned script is in $tulipdir /afs/slac.stanford.edu/package/pinger/tulip and it performs the listed functions. It uses the LWP package to access the webpage, download the file and then parse the output to get the faulty landmarks.
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Now to achieve the above mentioned steps we have done modifications in tulip database. We have created a new table named maintenance. The discription description of the table is as follows.
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If the disabled landmark replies and passes the above mentioned pseudo , we increment the upDays by 1, change value of downDays to 0 and put in the comment that weather information as to whether the host passed the test or IP was responding. In the same manner if the host fails the test we increment downDays by 1 and mark upDays as 0. With this counter technique at any instant of time we can have an hawk eye view and enable the host if its up for a longer period of time.
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