When I ping one site it returns "Request timed out". I want to make little program that will inform me (sound beep or something like that) when this server is online again. No matter in which language. I think it should be very simple script with a several lines of code. So how to write it?
Some implementations of ping allow you to specify conditions for exiting after receipt of packets:
On Mac OS X, use ping -a -o $the_host
ping will keep trying (by default)
-a means beep when a packet is received
-o means exit when a packet is received
On Linux (Ubuntu at least), use ping -a -c 1 -w inf $the_host
-a means beep when a packet is received
-c 1 specifies the number of packets to send before exit (in this case 1)
-w inf specifies the deadline for when ping exits no matter what (in this case Infinite)
when -c and -w are used together, -c becomes number of packets received before exit
Either can be chained to perform your next command, e.g. to ssh into the server as soon as it comes up (with a gap between to allow sshd to actually start up):
# ping -a -o $the_host && sleep 3 && ssh $the_host
Don't forget the notify sound like echo"^G"! Just to be different - here's Windows batch:
C:\> more pingnotify.bat
:AGAIN
ping -n 1 %1%
IF ERRORLEVEL 1 GOTO AGAIN
sndrec32 /play /close "C:\Windows\Media\Notify.wav"
C:\> pingnotify.bat localhost
:)
One way is to run ping is a loop, e.g.
while ! ping -c 1 host; do sleep 1; done
(You can redirect the output to /dev/null if you want to keep it quiet.)
On some systems, such as Mac OS X, ping may also have the options -a -o (as per another answer) available which will cause it to keep pinging until a response is received. However, the ping on many (most?) Linux systems does not have the -o option and the kind of equivalent -c 1 -w 0 still exits if the network returns an error.
Edit: If the host does not respond to ping or you need to check the availability of service on a certain port, you can use netcat in the zero I/O mode:
while ! nc -w 5 -z host port; do sleep 1; done
The -w 5 specifies a 5 second timeout for each individual attempt. Note that with netcat you can even list multiple ports (or port ranges) to scan when some of them becomes available.
Edit 2: The loops shown above keep trying until the host (or port) is reached. Add your alert command after them, e.g. beep or pop-up a window.
Related
When I want to count the number of bytes getting out a Linux system through a particular port I can use iptables, adding a specific rule that can be checked whenever I need.
For instance lets imagine that I need to know how many bytes go out through port 22. I can add the following rule:
iptables -A OUTPUT -p tcp --sport 22
And when I need to know the answer to my question, I run:
iptables -L -nvx
Or if I need just the bytes:
iptables -L -nvx | grep :22 | awk '{ print $2 }'
My problem is that if that system is running Docker, the iptables are changed as explained here and I can't get the desired effect (if I repeat the process above I always get 0 bytes even knowing that was traffic on that port).
Can someone please explain how can I obtain the same bytes count in this case?
I have a health check defined for my ECS Fargate Service, it works when I test locally and works with Fargate v 1.3.0.
But when I change to Fargate Platform version 1.4.0 it always turns unhealthy. But the actual service is working. I can access the service on the containers public IP.
The health check is defined as:
"CMD-SHELL", "curl --fail http://localhost || exit 1"
So we looked into this and there's an issue in platform version 1.4 where, if the health check outputs anything to stderr a false negative occurs. We will, obviously, fix this but in the meantime you can work around this by (in this case) run curl in silent mode or simply redirect stderr output to /dev/null:
curl -s --fail http://localhost || exit 1
or
curl --fail http://localhost 2>/dev/null || exit 1
Should unblock you for now.
I wanted to collate some answers together and build on them, as follows.
I'm not being funny, but first and foremost make sure you have a healthcheck endpoint running somewhere. Note that this doesn't have to be inside your container! Let me show you what I mean:
curl -s --fail -I https://127.0.0.1:8000/ || exit 1
will only pass if you have a HTTP server running on localhost port 8000 (etc.). This can be anything that returns a 200 - over to you.
Tips:
Make sure curl is installed inside the container
-s is for silent
--fail - ask google
-I header only
If localhost doesn't work try 127.0.0.1
Now, in my case I was not running a HTTP server but rather a long-running python script. In its error state the script exits with 1 (which terminates the task), but otherwise (after a long time) it exits with 0. To fail the healthcheck, the healthcheck call must also return 0 (otherwise there is a 1 and the task is again terminated*). [*exit codes > 1 can be converted to a 1 - see below stolen trick.]
So I had to fake a different endpoint with the same behaviour.
Step forward, Google.
curl -s --fail -I https://www.google.com || exit 1
As before, but now hit an external endpoint kindly provided. Note the || exit 1 which converts any positive-definite integer exit code to the 1 liked by the healthcheck.
Sorry to "state the bleeding obvious", but you really do need a function running here - don't run curl on a local endpoint and expect to get a healthy status!
Remember to expose the https / http ports 443 / 80 in your docker file and in the JSON task definition spec/through the console UI.
TIP! Note that the CMD-SHELL syntax is slightly different depending.
Putting it all together, for ECS Fargate the rest is correct.
You could also try an echo rather than a curl. I am unclear whether a point-to-point call is even required.
http://pktgen.readthedocs.org/en/latest/running.html
This is the pktgen dpdk application. The screenshot in that link shows how ports are configured. But For me it doesnt configure at all. I am looking for help as a beginner
First, as you may know, pktgen is an application that use the DPKD framework, thus, you should have bind at least one NIC to DPDK. Check the documentation about DPDK: DPDK building instructions. You should see your NIC correctly bound with this command:
# path/to/DPDK/tools/dpdk_nic_bind.py --status
Then, you can run pktgen. The ports you want to use are specified with the -p option (It's a specific pktgen option so it's after the --). It's a port mask, so for instance, if you want only the first port (port 0) you can use -p 0x1.
Then, the -m option permit you to choose which core will handle which DPDK port. The syntax is not really obvious, I suggest you to read the doc of pktgen about this option: pktgen command line options.
For example, to be short, the option -m "[1:3].0" says you want that CPU core 1 handle "RX port 0", and CPU core 3 handle "TX port 0".
A simple command line for pktgen, if you use only one port running on two cores could be:
./app/pktgen -c 0x7 -n 3 -- -p 0x1 -P -m "[1:2].0"
In that case CPU core 1 and 2 (possible because of the "-c 0x7 option") will be used to handle respectively RX and TX of port 0 (configured with "-p 0x1"). Note that -P is for promiscuous mode.
I'm using iperf3 that is supposedly a rewritten version of iperf. Reason why Im using this is because I love iperf when it comes to TCP and UDP throughput and I now want to test SCTP throughput between my end-points.
However when I'm trying to use the --sctp command that I've seen people been using it says command not recognizable. Is it the implementation I'm using that have not implemented this command?
https://github.com/esnet/iperf
This is the implementation I'm using, can't find any obvious documentation of the SCTP commands related to this. Most SCTP iperf implementations are added manually in the tests and the source code is often not provided.
Any help would be appreciated!
Get a copy of iperf which supports lksctp module of linux kernel. Install it using the standard process. (If it fails, please inform with the error message and the operating system and kernel details). Now to use SCTP in iperf these are the proper syntaxes.
For creating an SCTP server,
iperf -z -s
(-z is for selecting the SCTP protocol and -s is for server.)
For creating an SCTP client,
iperf -z -c <host address> -t <time duration for the connection in second>s -i <interval of the time to print the bandwidth in terminal in second>s
(-z for SCTP, -c is for client. Host address should be the ip address of the server where iperf -z -s is already running. -t is to specify the communication time duration. -i is to specify the interval to show the bandwidth.)
Example:
iperf -z -c 0.0.0.0 -t 10s -i 2s
Here the communication time is 10 seconds and it'll report the bandwidth for each 2 seconds interval.
P.S.
(1) To use iperf for SCTP, you must enable the SCTP module in the kernel and recompile it. The kernel version must be 2.6 or above. Check it using uname -a or uname -r. If you have a lower one, then download a new kernel from The Linux Kernel Archives. And compile it by enabling SCTP.
First check if it is already enabled or not by running these two commands in the terminal.
modprobe sctp
lsmod | grep sctp If you get any output then SCTP is already enabled.
(2) If still iperf with -z fails. Try the following solution. If the two machines are 'A' and 'B'.
First make 'A' the server and 'B' the client. It won't succeed. So
exit by using `ctrl + z` and kill iperf
using `pkill -9 iperf`.
Then make 'B' the server and 'A' the client. It may succeed. If it fails again, kill iperf using the above command and repeat step 1 again. it might get succeeded.
(The 2nd solution works for me with fedora 20 and kernel 2.6 and above.)
Couldn't find any recent answers through googling so I though I would leave an answer here for those looking to installing Iperf3 to use SCTP on RHEL / CentOS.
You'll need to install lksctp-tools-devel first and build from source to enable the SCTP support. Yum Install Iperf3 3.17 with lksctp-tools-devel did not enable SCTP for me.
I'm working on a RabbitMQ distributed POC and I'm stuck at the basics of clustering the nodes.
I'm trying to follow the rabbit's tutorial on clustering so this is my reference.
After installing erlang (R14B04) and rabbit (2.8.2-1) I've copied the .erlang.cookie file contents from one node to the other two.
I wasn't sure about how to get erlang to notice this change to I had to restart the machines themselves (pretty brute force but I don't know erlang at all).
In addtion I opened in iptables 4369 and 5 additional ports for communications and placed under
/usr/lib64/erlang/bin/sys.config the following config:
{kernel,[{inet_dist_listen_min, XX00},{inet_dist_listen_max,XX05}]}]
Then another restart (dumb I know) to verify erlang takes these into consideration but still when I run:
rabbitmqctl cluster rabbit#HostName1
I get:
Clustering node rabbit#HostName2 with [rabbit#HostName1] ...
Error: {no_running_cluster_nodes,[rabbit#HostName1],
[rabbit#HostName1]}
There is a chance my fiddling with the erlang.cookie or with the ports did not succeed but I don't know how to check them. I tried typing erl in the cmd and then erl_epmd:names() or other commands to get more information but I'm probably way off in erlang land.
Would truly appreciate any help
Update:
I tried pinging two erlang nodes manually and got pang back.
I did the following:
Connected to two nodes, stopped rabbitmq (wasn't sure if needed but to be sure), started erlang like so (erl -sname dilbert and erl -sname dilbert2) when the erlang command line started i ran node(). on each of them and got dilbert#HostName1 and dilbert2#HostName2 respectively. I then tried to run net_adm:ping('dilbert'). and net_adm:ping('dilbert#HostName1'). with the single quote and without them from both nodes (changed names of course) and got on all 8 cases pang.
When I ran nodes(). on one of the machines I got back an empty array.
I've also tried to allow all traffic in the firewall (script) and then try to run the above commands (don't worry they're back on now) and still got back pang.
Update2:
For some reason I had cookies mismatch which I needed to resolve (thanks #kjw0188 for the suggestion [I ran erlang:get_cookie(). in the erlang command line]).
This did not help and I needed to stop iptables completely (not sure why but I'll figure it soon) and load the erlang node with -name dilbert#my-ip because my rackspace servers have no dns-name. This finally enabled me to get a pong and see the nodes see each other (nodes(). returns a non-empty array after the ping).
The problem I'm facing now is how to instruct RabbitMQ to use -name instead of -sname when starting erlang.
So I had multiple issues with connecting my two RabbitMQ nodes-
I'll add that my nodes are hosted on rackspace, and so don't have a default exposable hostname, and require iptables since there is no DMZ or built in security group concept like amazon.
Problems:
1. Cookie- Not sure how or why but I had multiple instances of .erlang.cookie (in /root, in my home directory and in /var/lib/rabbitmq/) I kept only the one in rabbitmq and verified all nodes have the same cookie.
2. IPTables- In order for the nodes to communicate I needed to open the epmd port and the range of ports for the actual communication inet_dist_listen_min inet_dist_listen_max.
/sbin/iptables -A INPUT -i eth1 -p tcp --dport ${epmd} -s ${otherNode} -j ACCEPT
/sbin/iptables -A INPUT -i eth1 -p tcp --dport ${inet_dist_listen_min}:${inet_dist_listen_max} -s ${otherNode} -j ACCEPT
empd is the usuall 4369 port and for the other range use whatever range you want.
${otherNode} is the ip of my other node.
I also needed to configure erlang through rabbitmq to use these ports (see config file at end)
3. HostName- Seeing as I don't have a hostname I needed to edit the rabbit scripts to use -name and not -sname (the first tells erlang to take the whole name, the latter stands for short name and thus appends an # symbol and the hostname).
This was accomplished by editing:
/usr/lib/rabbitmq/bin/rabbitmqctl
Added at the beginning the definition of the RABBITMQ_NODE_IP_ADDRESS property
DEFAULT_NODE_IP_ADDRESS=auto
DEFAULT_NODE_PORT=5672
[ "x" = "x$RABBITMQ_NODE_IP_ADDRESS" ] && RABBITMQ_NODE_IP_ADDRESS=${NODE_IP_ADDRESS}
[ "x" = "x$RABBITMQ_NODE_PORT" ] && RABBITMQ_NODE_PORT=${NODE_PORT}
[ "x" = "x$RABBITMQ_NODE_IP_ADDRESS" ] && [ "x" != "x$RABBITMQ_NODE_PORT" ] && RABBITMQ_NODE_IP_ADDRESS=${DEFAULT_NODE_IP_ADDRESS}
[ "x" != "x$RABBITMQ_NODE_IP_ADDRESS" ] && [ "x" = "x$RABBITMQ_NODE_PORT" ] && RABBITMQ_NODE_PORT=${DEFAULT_NODE_PORT}
and in the actual erl command I changed
-sname ${RABBITMQ_NODENAME} \ to
-name ${RABBITMQ_NODENAME}#${RABBITMQ_NODE_IP_ADDRESS}\.
This made rabbitmq listen only on the specified ip address (specified in the config file at the end) and load with that ip instead of the usuall hostname.
edited /usr/lib/rabbitmq/bin/rabbitmq-server
Changed the actual erl command from -sname ${RABBITMQ_NODENAME} \ to -name ${RABBITMQ_NODENAME}#${RABBITMQ_NODE_IP_ADDRESS}\
Added a rabbit conf (/etc/rabbitmq/rabbitmq-env.conf) file with-
#the ip address which rabbit should use, this is to limit rabbit to only use internal rackspace communication and not publicly accessible ports
NODE_IP_ADDRESS=myIpAdress
#had to change the nodename becaue otherwise rabbitmq used rabbit#Hostname and not only rabbit
NODENAME=myCompany
#This instructed rabbit to instruct erlang which ports it should use for its communications with other nodes
export SERVER_ERL_ARGS="$SERVER_ERL_ARGS -kernel inet_dist_listen_min somePort -kernel inet_dist_listen_max someOtherBiggerPort"
Some resources which helped me along the way:
RabbitMQ Clustering Guide
Clustering RabbitMQ servers for High Availability
rabbitmq-env.conf(5) manual page
Node communication by public IP address erlang mailing list (The middle post)
Configuring RabbitMQ Cluster on Cloud
Hope this will help anyone else.
EDIT:
Not sure how I was mistaken but it seemed my erlang-rabbit port instructions were not taken into consideration or were not enough. Ended up having to allow all communications between the two nodes...
One thing to really watch out for is whitespace of any kind in the erlang cookie file, especially line breaks AFTER the contents of the cookie. So long as both are identical, things are okay, but when one has a line break and the other doesn't, thing won't work.
Background: I was facing the same issue while setting up Rabbitmq cluster. I was using 2 docker containers running on my host-machine, which is equivalent to 2 separate nodes and I could not create a cluster of these two.
Solution: 1. Make sure you have same erlang cookie on all your cluster nodes, the default location is /var/lib/rabbitmq/.erlang.cookie. This file is used for authentication, so make sure, you have it same on all the nodes. After changing the .erlang.cookie restart your rabbitmq service.
Make sure that nodes are accessible from one other, use ping or telnet to check the connection.
Check that /etc/hosts have correct entries, for example if rabbit2 wants to join cluster rabbit1, /etc/hosts of rabbit2 should contain.
172.68.1.6 rabbit1
172.68.1.7 rabbit2
Now stop service using $rabbitmqctl stop_app followed by $rabbitmqctl join_cluster rabbit#rabbit1, start your service by rabbitmqctl start_app and check $rabbitmqctl cluster_status to see weather you have joined the cluster or not.
I followed the rabbitmq official documentation to setup the cluster.
to change RabbitMQ sname/name behaviour you can edit the scripts:
rabbitmq-multi
rabbitmq-server
rabbitmqctl
Example
In script rabbitmqctl there is the following piece of code:
exec erl \
-pa "${RABBITMQ_HOME}/ebin" \
-noinput \
-hidden \
${RABBITMQ_CTL_ERL_ARGS} \
-sname rabbitmqctl$$ \
-s rabbit_control \
-nodename $RABBITMQ_NODENAME \
-extra "$#"
You have to change it in:
exec erl \
-pa "${RABBITMQ_HOME}/ebin" \
-noinput \
-hidden \
${RABBITMQ_CTL_ERL_ARGS} \
-name rabbitmqctl$$ \
-s rabbit_control \
-nodename $RABBITMQ_NODENAME \
-extra "$#"
http://pearlin.info/?p=1672
so you need to copy the cookie from the node you trying to connect
example :- rabbit#node1
rabbit#node2
go to rabbit#node1 and copy the cookie from cat /var/lib/rabbitmq/.erlang.cookie
go to rabbit#node2 remove the current cookie and paste the new one.
on same node
/usr/sbin/rabbitmqctl stop_app
/usr/sbin/rabbitmqctl reset
/usr/sbin/rabbitmqctl cluster rabbit#node1
should do it.
same documented here.
http://pearlin.info/?p=1672