Re: [Bigsister-general] bs0.99b2 udp pings and uxmon-asroot issues

>Pinging by udp expects an icmp error "port unreachable" from the >final host to determine, if the host is up.
>It is possible, that your windows machine does not allow outgoing >icmp messages.It is also possible, that microsoft ignores the >standard here, but i don't know for sure ;)
>In both cases, the udp ping will simply time out without an accurate >response. There also can be an application listening behind the >chosen port, but that's unlikley.

The Windows machine is running Windows 2000. The other machine is XPSP2 with ICMP echo turned on. There's also a Solaris box which isn't responding to UDP pings, and I even applied a UDP ping to the big sister server itself (which is running Debian-3.1-sarge). All failed. :(

I'm too green to know what's required to get UDP pings to work. Is an extra module required on the Big Sister server? Will I need to run an BSagent on the other boxes?

>To build icmp packets, root privileges are necessary.
>Possibly a permission problem with your uxmon-asroot file?
>Try make a simple uxmon-asroot and try again. For me, it's working >without any problems.

There doesn't seem to be any permissions problems on either uxmon setting file. both are 0wned by the bigsister user "bs", and are -rw-r--r--

I tried adjusting my uxmon-asroot and uxmon-net files as per your example. However, when starting /etc/init.d/bigsister as user "bs", bigsister is still just grinding to a halt when it attempts to load uxmon-asroot. When I start bigsister as root, it starts up, but I get the following messages for every ping check in uxmon-asroot :-

"Agent uxmon for uxmon-net: uxmon: WARNING: ICMP ping probably only works when running as root

Agent uxmon for uxmon-net: Wed Sep 15 14:03:02 2004: uxmon: check ping failed to start up - ignored"

yet when I look at the Big sister homepage... ICMP pings are actually working under these conditions.

Any ideas?

My uxmon-asroot looks like this:-

DEFAULT proto=icmp ping

192.168.16.40 ping

192.168.16.25 ping

192.168.16.13 ping

(EOF)

All these servers are pingable with the UNIX ping command.