hpcttrigger(1)

✨ NAME ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to the hpcttrigger manual page — that's a General Commands Manual entry, section 1, for the High-Performance Connectivity Tracer (HiPerConTracer) Trigger Tool. yes it's a mouthful, yes it's iconic, moving on 💅

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

hpcttrigger [-P|--ping] [-T|--traceroute] [-L|--loglevel level]
            [-q|--quiet] [-v|--verbose] [-U|--user user|uid]
            [-S|--source address[,traffic_class[,...]]]
            [-D|--destination address]
            [--tracerouteinterval milliseconds]
            [--tracerouteduration milliseconds]
            [--tracerouterounds rounds]
            [--tracerouteinitialmaxttl value]
            [--traceroutefinalmaxttl value]
            [--tracerouteincrementmaxttl value]
            [--pinginterval milliseconds]
            [--pingexpiration milliseconds] [--pingttl value]
            [-R|--resultsdirectory directory]
            [--resultstransactionlength seconds]
            [--pingtriggerage seconds]
            [--pingtriggerlength payload_length]
            [--pingsbeforequeuing count]

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so basically, hpcttrigger is the little bestie that triggers HiPerConTracer runs whenever it clocks incoming "Ping" packets 👀💌

and the way it works is so cute: the moment it's seen the given number of those packets, with the given size, coming from a source — boom, it fires off a Ping or a Traceroute to the corresponding address. main character energy fr fr ✨

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🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

these are the ones you can pass in, bestie:

• --pingtriggerage seconds — sets the max number of seconds allowed to sit between two trigger "Pings" (default: 300). clock's ticking ⏳
• --pingtriggerlength payload_length — sets the "Ping" payload length that's required to trigger HiPerConTracer (default: 53).
• --pingsbeforequeuing count — sets how many observed "Ping" packets it needs before it triggers HiPerConTracer (default: 3). patience is a virtue 🫶

ngl, for the other arguments and the output format, you gotta go read the manual page of HiPerConTracer. this girlie only covers so much 💀

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🔥 EXAMPLES 🔥

here's the whole vibe in action:

hpcttrigger --source 10.1.1.51 --traceroute --verbose
        --pingsbeforequeuing 2 --pingtriggerlength 88

hpcttrigger --source 10.1.1.51 --pingtriggerage 1800 --ping --verbose

hpcttrigger --source=10.1.1.51 --traceroute
        --resultsdirectory=/tmp/results --resultstransactionlength=60

hpcttrigger --source=172.16.1.2,BE,EF --source=172.17.1.2,BE,AF11,AF21
        --pingtriggerage=1800 --ping --verbose

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👑 AUTHORS 👑

all the credit goes to Thomas Dreibholz 💖

• https://www.nntb.no/~dreibh/hipercontracer
• mailto://thomas.dreibholz@gmail.com

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and that's a wrap bestie 🎀 this lil page was hanging out as hpcttrigger in the General Commands Manual, dated June 6, 2019, and its source/version tag is just hpcttrigger too. slay, go trigger some runs 💅✨