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data_sendmsg



NAME

data_sendmsg - spong-network module that sends copies of update messages to other spong-servers

DESCRIPTION

This is a plugin module for the Spong the spong-server manpage program. This module sends incoming update messages to other spong-servers. It's purpose is to set up regional Spong configurations that feed incoming status messages to upper level Spong configurations.

Configuration

$SENDMSG_SERVERS
A string that has the list of other Spong Servers that you want to the status update messages to. The syntax is "hostname[:port] hostname[:port] ...". If the :port is not specified, Spong::Status::SendMsg defaults to $main::SPONG_UPDATE_PORT variable passed in the procedure call. See the section on $SPONG_UPDATE_PORT in the spong.conf manpage for more details.

@SENDMSG_INC_HOSTS
This is ia list of hosts who's status messages are sent to the other Spong Server specified in $SENDMSG_SERVERS. These entries can be partial host names or Perl regular expressions.

@SENDMSG_EXCL_HOSTS
This is a list of hosts that should be exclude from send to the other Spong Servers specified in $SENDMSG_SERVERS. These entries can be partial host names or Perl regulare expressions.

EXAMPLES

 $SENDMSG_SERVERS = "spong-reg1.myinc.com:1998 spong-toplevel.myinc.com:1998
                     spong-proxy.myinc.com:19980";

 $SENDMSG_INC_HOSTS = ( '.*', );

 $SENDMSG_EXCL_HOSTS = ( 'test1', 'test2', '.engr.myinc.com$', );

SEE ALSO

the spong-server manpage, the spong.conf manpage, Spong Developer Guide

NOTES

The check_interfaces module use SNMP to poll a host. It retrieves the ifIndex, ifDesc, ifType, ifAdminStatus, and ifOperStatus fields for every entry in the ifTable table. The module then scans all of all of the network interfaces inretrieved from the table. Any interface that is administratively up and is not operationally up will result in an critical status (red) being return.

RESTRICTIONS

data_sendmsg uses the Spong::Status library module to work. It uses the new capability to send a status message to multiple servers. It is only available in versions 0.02 and up of the Spong::Status module.

AUTHOR

Stephen L Johnson <sjohnson@monsters.org>.


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