[hobbit] depends tag questions, possible feature request

[Henrik Stoerner]

On Mon, Oct 09, 2006 at 12:56:12PM -0700, Charles Jones wrote:

> *It would be nice if Hobbit had "flap detection"*, where if a service 
> changes states more than X times in X minutes or seconds, it turns clear 
> or blue (or maybe even a new color). I am reminded that Nagios has this 
> feature, and Hobbit is totally better than Nagios, so we shouldn't have 
> that feature missing right? ;-)

I agree, its something I've been wanting to do for some time.


> *It would be nice if the depend tag worked for any column/test type*.
> I looked at using the "depends" tag, but it appears that *depends only 
> works for network checks*.

Agreed. The dependency checks are currently implemented in the network
test tool (bbtest-net), instead of in the hobbitd daemon - that is the
reason why they only work for network tests. And that is purely for
historical reasons.

I expect to move all of the dependency code into hobbitd soon, together
with the combination-test handling (the stuff currenly done by
bbcombotest), that will eliminate this rather silly restriction.


Regards,
Henrik