Re: [xymon] Depends and route

[Buchan Milne <bgmilne (at) staff.telkomsa.net>]

On Thursday, 21 October 2010 17:19:08 Tony Larco wrote:
> I, and several others, have not been able to make DEPENDS work.  I
> googled and searched the mailing list, and have found no one who has
> been able to make it work as far as I know.  I would love to use the
> feature to reduce notifications when a firewall or ISP goes down.

I provided this example last week to another similar statement:

> This works for me:
> a.b.c.d    dnscache1.xxxx        # dns=a:www.google.com testip
> depends=(dns:UPSTREAMLINK/conn)
> 
> (where UPSTREAMLINK is the name of a bb-hosts entry that has a conn check
> for our next hop(s)).
> 
> If UPSTERAMLINK.conn is red, and the dns test fails, it goed clear instead
> of red (well, it can be red for a brief period, so one should alert on red
> with DURATION greater than the time your bbtest-net cycle actually takes -
> in my case the time taken when DNS is unavailable)
> 
> If you have a case where it is not working according to the documentation,
> please discuss and file a bug if necessary.
> 
> Note though that depends only works for tests run by bbtest-net, AFAIK you
> can't have a network check depending on a ports (client data) check, or
> have one host checked by one bbtest-net instance depend on a network test
> checked by another bbtest-net instance. This is covered in the bb-hosts(5)
> coverage for the 'depends' tag.

So, it if isn't working for you, please provide your configuration, and/or 
file a bug.

Regards,
Buchan