Master "depends" setting for all network tests?

[Haertig, David F (Dave)]

My Hobbit server sits on it's own subnet (other stuff is there, but
nothing that Hobbit tests for).

Is it possible to have a single setting that basically says "ALL Hobbit
network tests are dependant on <gateway>"?  So if Hobbit's subnet goes
down, and thus all of it's ping tests and other network tests start
failing, I can avoid the alerting spam-flood that comes at me after
Hobbit's subnet is restored.

The only mention of "depends" I see is on a per_test/per_host basis in
the bb-hosts file.  This would make me have to put in LOTS of these
lines.  I would like some kind of global setting if possible.

Thanks