[hobbit] Depends tag question

[Stuffle, David]

Henrik Stoerner wrote:
> Going through my mail in preparation for 4.0.3, I don't
> think I've answered this one: 
> 
> On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 07:27:44AM -0500, Stuffle, David
> wrote: 
>> I have the depends tag on one of our hosts and I'm
>> confused on why it goes clear occasionally.  This is
>> what I have in the hosts file: 
>> 
>> 0.0.0.0	www.deltafaucet.com  # noconn
>> http://12.159.193.35 depends=(http:firewall/http) 
>> 
>> The http test on www.deltafaucet.com has gone clear
>> about 4 or 5 times in the past week while the http test
>> on "firewall" has stayed green the whole time.  Each
>> time it goes clear, it's only for less than a minute,
>> sometimes just a few seconds.  Shouldn't clear events on
>> www.deltafaucet.com match up with red events on
>> "firewall"?  
> 
> If you go to the www.deltafaucet.com http-column and view
> the history, then the detailed status for one of these
> "clear" reports - what does it say ? If it's because of a
> failed dependency, then it should say that on the
> historical status log. 
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Henrik
> 
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It does say it's because of a failed dependency.  It says the firewall/http
failed.  But, the firewall has no failed reports during that time.  It's
been green for a long time, no failures in the logs.

Also, I'm getting inconsistent behaviour using the tag "badhttp:1:2:3" on a
host.  Once it went red and then clear, another time it went clear then red
over an hour later.  I haven't quite nailed down what it's doing but it
doesn't seem right.  From what I understand, it should go clear-yellow-red
corresponding to the first-second-third failed test.   

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
David Stuffle 
Delta Faucet Company


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