[Xymon] depends - is it working?

[Ryan Novosielski]

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There is evidence in the form of conversations about it on the mailing
list in the past. I'm not sure that I've ever seen Henrik chime in about
it though. I would hope that he does on this thread.

On 03/13/2012 11:23 AM, Tom S wrote:
> Well it doesn't seem like it does work.
> 
> I have the following setup in hosts.cfg:
> 74.125.226.7 GOOGLE # conn    <--- a simple Google ping connectivity test.
> 1.2.3.4 site-wiki # ssh ssh-tunnel conn https://site.sitetest.com
> route:GOOGLE depends=(mysql:GOOGLE/conn) depends (ssh:GOOGLE/conn)
> depends (http:GOOGLE/conn)  <--- runs a conn, ssh, mysql and http
> test.. with  a route dependancy for the conn to google.com and a
> mysql, ssh and http dependency on GOOGLE/coon.
> " "
> " "
> many of these lines end with "depends=(mysql:GOOGLE/conn) depends
> (ssh:GOOGLE/conn)  depends (http:GOOGLE/conn)"
> I even tried depends=(mysql:GOOGLE/conn,ssh:GOOGLE/conn,http:GOOGLE/conn)
> does not help.
> 
> The problem is, there is about 25 hosts+ using this exact dependency
> and only about 50% of the time it actually works.
> The "route:" option only helps with the hosts 'conn' status which is good.
> But the 'depends' barely works half the time.  At least by the 'mysql'
> test (a simple telnet to 3306) almost never works.  (but yet sometimes
> it does).  No idea why.
> 
> Is this documented somewhere which states this option hasn't worked
> properly for a while now?
> 
> thanks!
> 
> 
> On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 10:28 AM, Tom S <tsztur at gmail.com> wrote:
>> What is the official status on using depends?
>>
>> I need to make sure all my http content checks, ssh checks, etc
>> depends on an outside host since the ISP xymon is hosted on is very up
>> and down.
>>
>> Where can I find documentation on how to implement depends?
>>
>> I have tested ROUTE but it only seems to work on conn's .  is this true?
>>
>> tia.
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