[Xymon] Hierarchial alerting

[Phil Crooker]

Thanks so much for this suggestion, and thanks Chris for your pointing
out what I should have looked into before posting....

This is great, choices!

cheers, Phil



>>> On 3/31/2011 at 2:33 AM, in message
<85108204A570E341A517A744DA59C41E05E71D9543 at EXITS712.its.iastate.edu>,
"Dugan,
Darin D [EIT]" <dddugan at iastate.edu> wrote:
> Phil,
> In addition to the 'depends' tag as suggested by Chris Morris, you
may also 
> consider the 'route' tag. I find it simpler to use for wan sites,
though the 
> behavior is somewhat different. Whereas depends will make dependent
tests go 
> clear, route makes conn tests go yellow with a message that it is
down 
> because device ABC is down. Something like:
> 
> 1.2.3.4	wan_router	# conn
> 1.2.3.5	site_router	# conn route:wan_router
> 1.2.3.6	site_switch	# conn route:wan_router,site_router
> 1.2.3.7	print_server	# conn ftp
route:wan_router,site_router,site_switch
> 
> So if wan_router goes down the other three will go yellow and
therefore not 
> alert. And when a tech looks at the yellow status it will plainly
state it is 
> down because wan_router is down.
> 
> Cheers.