[hobbit] Feature suggestion?

[P.H. Welter]

Many thanks! Sorry I had not read the man pages completely.

Peter

Op 20-mei-05 om 14:52 heeft Daniel J McDonald het volgende geschreven:

> On Fri, 2005-05-20 at 09:29 +0200, Gee Pee wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I've heard from a Nagios(?)-feature that I would like to see in (a
>> future) Hobbit release very much, alerting based on dependies.
> [...]
>
>> Will this be possible some day?
>
> man bb-hosts
> [...]
>    depends=(testA:host1/test1,host2/test2),(testB:host3/test3),[...]
>    This tag allows you to define dependencies betweeen tests.   If
> "testA" for the current host depends on "test1" for host "host1" and
> test "test2" for "host2", this can be defined with
> depends=(testA:host1/test1,host2/test2)
>
>     When  deciding  the  color  to  report  for  testA,  if   either
> host1/test1  failed  or  host2/test2 failed, if testA has failed also
> then the color of testA will be "clear" instead of  red  or yellow.
>
>     Since  all  tests  are  actually run before the dependencies are
> evaluated, you can use any host/test in the dependency - regard-less  
> of
> the  actual sequence that the hosts are listed, or the tests run. It is
> also valid to use tests from the same host that the dependency is for.
> E.g.
>
>       1.2.3.4  foo # http://foo/ webmin depends=(webmin:foo/http)
>
> is  valid; if both the http and the webmin tests fail, then webmin will
> be reported as clear.
>
>     Note: The "depends" tag is evaluated on the BBNET  server  while
> running  the network tests. It can therefore only refer to other 
> network
> tests that are handled by the same BBNET server -  there is  currently
> no  way to use the e.g. the status of locally run tests (disk, cpu,
> msgs)  or  network  tests  from  other  BBNET servers  in  a  
> dependency
> definition.  Such  dependencies  are silently ignored.
>
>
> -- 
> Daniel J McDonald, CCIE # 2495, CNX
> Austin Energy
>
> dan.mcdonald at austinenergy.com
>
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