[hobbit] depends & conn test

[Tod Hansmann]

Works for us.  We use something along these lines:

depends=(ssh:router1/conn,vpnrouter/conn,vpnrouter2/conn)

I see that you had something similar originally, however, note that the test will STILL be run on the ssh and give you the history results you see. This only effects the color it gets if it actually fails.  

Tod Hansmann
Network Engineer

 
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From: Daniel Bourque [mailto:dbourque at weatherdata.com] 
Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2007 12:26 PM
To: hobbit at hswn.dk
Subject: Re: [hobbit] depends & conn test

Thanks for the reply ,

    Unfortunately for me, it appears that "route" only affects ping ( "conn" ) tests. So, I can't use route for the ssh checks, and I can't make the ssh test depend on another host's conn test.  I could setup a yahoo www test, and try to use that as a dependency, hopefully that works. 

thanks


-Dan


Geoff Hallford wrote: 
I have never been able to get depends to work. You should use the 'route' tag on the host to have a dependency, such as:
 
1.1.1.1 foo
2.2.2.2 bar # ssh noconn route:foo
 
or more hops:
 
1.1.1.1 foo
2.2.2.2 bar # ssh noconn route:router1,vpnrouter,vpnrouter2
3.3.3.3 router1
4.4.4.4 vpnrouter
5.5.5.5 vpnrouter2
 
This would assume the environment is like this: (hobbitserver and foo) > router1 > vpnrouter > vpnrouter2 > bar
 
 
On 10/9/07, Daniel Bourque <dbourque at weatherdata.com> wrote: 
Hi, 

    I've looked up the list archive and there doesn't seem to be any answer to this problem, the "depends" doesn't work with the "conn" test. 

    I have a bunch of remote kiosks connected via vpn and other means. Some I can ping and some I can't. I can always ssh to them, therefore ssh is the main connectivity test for all them.

    I'm trying make those test dependent on our internet connection. 

   In my bb-hosts file, I've added www.yahoo.com as a host and added  depends=(ssh: www.yahoo.com/conn)  to the kiosk machine definition in the bb-hosts file.

   In order to test that, I setup hosts foo and bar in my lab, defined the,as follow:

x.x.x.x foo
x.x.x.x bar # ssh noconn depends=(ssh:foor/conn) 


I unplug foo and bar's network cable, and sometimes later I get a page regarding the ssh on bar 

interestingly, bar's ssh test history shows this:

Tue Oct 09 16:43:25 2007 0:00:43 
Tue Oct 09 16:43:15 2007 0:00:10 
Tue Oct 09 16:38:20 2007 0:04:55 
Tue Oct 09 16:38:15 2007 0:00:05 
Tue Oct 09 16:34:16 2007 0:03:59 
Tue Oct 09 16:33:15 2007 0:01:01 
Tue Oct 09 16:29:07 2007 0:04:08 
Tue Oct 09 16:28:12 2007 0:00:55
Tue Oct 09 15:55:20 2007 0:32:52


Anyone using the conn test as a dependency out there ? Can anyone confirm that is does or does NOT work ?

Thanks

-Dan 




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