Feature request: Dependices

["Craig Cook" <craig (at) cookitservices.com>]

Idea taken blatantly from nagios:
http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/2_0/dependencies.html

This is slightly different to the bbcombotest hobbit currently has.

It would stop the "christmas tree" effect when a core router/switch fails.  Your whole monitoring system would not light up.

define host-service-dependency{
child_host_name		server1
child_service    	conn
parent_host_name	router1
parent_service          conn
inherits_parent         true
}

define host-service-dependency{
child_host_name		server2
child_service    	conn
parent_host_name	server1
parent_service          conn
inherits_parent         true
}

So, in this example, if router1 fails, server1 and server2 change to an "unknown" (maybe clear?) state for the conn test rather than going red and sending alerts.


Craig Cook
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