[Xymon] depends tag limitations (again)

[Novosielski, Ryan]

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Was this ever answered? I see I asked the same question again having
missed this question just a month prior.

Thanks.

On 09/10/2012 01:17 PM, SebA wrote:
> Hi Henrik,
> 
> Am I right in thinking that nothing has changed on this front?  I
> just tried to use depends with a custom test and it did not seem to
> have any effect (on Xymon 4.3.7)...
> 
> Dominique Frise wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> This is an extract of a previous reply from Henrik
> (http://www.hobbitmon.com/hobbiton/2006/10/msg00141.html):
>> 
>> 
>> ----------- Henrik Stoerner wrote:
>>> Charles Jones wrote:
>>>> *It would be nice if the depend tag worked for any
>>>> column/test type*. I looked at using the "depends" tag, but
>>>> it appears that *depends only works for network checks*.
>>> 
>>> Agreed. The dependency checks are currently implemented in the
>>> network test tool (bbtest-net), instead of in the hobbitd
>>> daemon - that is the reason why they only work for network
>>> tests. And that is purely for historical reasons.
>>> 
>>> I expect to move all of the dependency code into hobbitd soon,
>>> together with the combination-test handling (the stuff currenly
>>> done by bbcombotest), that will eliminate this rather silly
>>> restriction.
>>> 
>>> Regards, Henrik
>> -----------
>> 
>> Are the above limitations been removed in the current snapshot? 
>> If not when is this going to be implemented?
>> 
>> Thanks.
>> 
>> Dominique UNIL - University of Lausanne
>> 
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> SebA
> 


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