(RADIATOR) Silly question.

[Jaime C. Elizaga Jr.]

Alternatively, you can use the program "restartWrapper"  which is included with the radiator package.  It would perform the two things you require, restart radiator if it stops and e-mail the administrator in case it stops.

Regards,

Jaime
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Utku Er 
  To: radiator at open.com.au ; Sergio Gonzalez 
  Sent: Friday, January 18, 2002 6:37 AM
  Subject: Re: (RADIATOR) Silly question.


  Hi, 
  If your main concern is to restart if radius is not replying rather than only *knowing* if its up, 
  you can write a script using radpwtst like below *on* the radiator server and put it to cron. radpwtst is really a useful tool... If you want only to report the downtime or uptime, its a different story...
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  root#cat testradius.sh
  #!/bin/sh

  #see if its up and running
  if ps -ef | grep -v grep | grep radiusd > /dev/null
   then echo donothing > /dev/null
   else /etc/init.d/radiator restart
  fi

  #see if its actually replying
  if /usr/bin/radpwtst -secret yoursecret -noacct -user heartbeat -password heartbeat | grep "No reply" > /dev/null
   then /etc/init.d/radiator restart
  fi
  exit
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    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: Sergio Gonzalez 
    To: radiator at open.com.au 
    Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2002 11:27 PM
    Subject: (RADIATOR) Silly question.


    *This message was transferred with a trial version of CommuniGate(tm) Pro*

    Hi there.

    I been testing a network monitoring program. It cans test radius servers, 
    but I neet to "talk" to radiator to be able to see if it's down or not.

    For example you can test if a certain server has the http service up just 
    "teleneting" it in the 80 port like this:

    telnet machine.at.some.domain 80

    then you write

    HEAD / HTTP1.0^^

    and if the service is up it will tell you something like:

    HTTP/1.1 200 OK

    how can I achieve almos the same behavior talking with radiator?.

    PD: I know (of course) radiator is UDP based, but I still think maybe there 
    is a way to talk to it.


    Thanks in advance for the help.





    Sergio Alejandro Gonzalez
    Director Operativo
    SkyNet de Colombia.
    Bogota, Colombia, South America.
    57 (+1) 6 422 020
    57 (+3) 7 285 094

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