RE: RE: down a bunch of consoles

  I'm not sure why I might use that type of feature. (I prefer to log
all of the time, versus defaulting a bunch to "down"...I only have one
device that spews ~120-160 MB/Day, which I normally 'down' unless I
suspect I'm having trouble with the device. It is the debug port on a
Cisco Firewall Service module, one of a redundant pair...I keep the
'other' FWSM debug port UP, since it's idle, unless something goes wrong
and the two blades failover. If the other logfile is starting to grow, I
know I need to go find out what forced the failover.)

          -Z- 

David 'Zonker' Harris
Silicon Valley Service Delivery Center, Network Operations

Siemens IT Solutions and Services, Inc. 
Infrastructure Management Services
39600 Eureka Drive
Newark, CA  94560
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-----Original Message-----
From: Fabien Wernli [mailto:wernli@in2p3.fr] 
Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2008 10:46 AM
To: Harris, David (IT Solutions US)
Cc: users@conserver.com
Subject: Re: RE: down a bunch of consoles

On Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 09:12:58AM -0800, Harris, David (IT Solutions
US) wrote:
>   From the client (communicating with any individual host), you can 
> use [ctrl]+[e],  [c],  [d] to "down" that port.

yeah I used that in an expect script to down many at once. Not very
reliable
:o)

> simply comment out the lines associated with those ports, and then 
> -HUP the main Conserver process. (And you can re-enable them later by 
> editing the file and deleting that lead-# comment marker, and then 
> re-HUP-ing the main process again).

yeah sure but I dont like it because:

1) I like to keep my conserver.cf files in sync between my 6 conservers
   which means I have a cron to do that.

2) I believe it's a maintenance task, which should be handled by
'console'
   it'd be kind of cool to be able to 'console -u' to check nobody's
   connected to some consoles, then 'console --down <list of consoles>'.
   I mean there's a mechanism for downing a console. Why not one for
many?

thanks for your time