[hobbit] Depends Question

[Patrick Nixon]

Thanks for all the insight into this.

route works as advertised

I wonder if anyone has actually gotten the depends tag working correctly.


On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 4:03 PM, Johan Sjöberg
<johan.sjoberg at deltamanagement.se> wrote:
> Yes, route works fine.
>
> We always use it when monitoring stuff over VPN, to avoid getting 50 e-mails
> if the VPN goes down.
>
>
>
> But my experience is that conn for the “routed” hosts go yellow, not clear,
> if the “router” doesn’t respond to ping. Could be worth considering if you
> have alerts configured for yellow.
>
>
>
> /Johan
>
>
>
> From: Geoff Hallford [mailto:geoff.hallford at gmail.com]
> Sent: den 6 juli 2010 21:57
> To: hobbit at hswn.dk
> Subject: Re: [hobbit] Depends Question
>
>
>
> I have always used "route" and it works perfectly if conn is all you care
> about. I have never actually gotten "depends" to work. It doesn't make the
> ping go through any host you put in route and it also chains properly to
> make it easier. Example:
>
> 10.10.10.10  server1 # conn route:network1
> 20.20.20.20  network1 # conn route:network2
> 30.30.30.30  network2 # conn
>
> If the route to server1 is: hobbit -> network2 -> network1 -> server1
>
> The above statement works, that if network2 is down ... network1 and server1
> go blank :)
>
> On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 2:35 PM, <wiskbroom at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> I have nothing to add to this thread, but it looks like "depends" might be
> helpful for a problem I am currently having with a pair of servers, whereby
> one at a time will show a process as running, the other not.  So as long as
> one of these machines is running this app, the color should stay green.
>
> .vp
>
>> I've not experienced that behavior. Use this for dsl/cable modems and
>> our routers for 3+ years.
>>
>> Josh Luthman
>> Office: 937-552-2340
>> Direct: 937-552-2343
>> 1100 Wayne St
>> Suite 1337
>> Troy, OH 45373
>>
>> “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to
>> continue that counts.”
>> --- Winston Churchill
>>
>>
>>
>
>> On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 1:54 PM, Patrick Nixon  wrote:
>>> I read somewhere that if you use route, it does something weird with
>>> the pings so they go through that host or something?
>>>
>>> Let me test it and see how it behaves
>>>
>>> --patrick
>>>
>>> On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 1:46 PM, Josh Luthman
>
>>>  wrote:
>>>> I'm not certain of this because I've always used FQDN.
>>>>
>>>> If you have FQDN=true and are not using them, maybe the DEPENDS tag
>>>> isn't finding eto correct?
>>>>
>>>> In your case, as it is conn, you can use route
>>>>
>>>> 1.2.32.4    customer.router.com # testip route:customer.cablemodem.com
>>>>
>>>> Josh Luthman
>>>> Office: 937-552-2340
>>>> Direct: 937-552-2343
>>>> 1100 Wayne St
>>>> Suite 1337
>>>> Troy, OH 45373
>>>>
>>>> “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to
>>>> continue that counts.”
>>>> --- Winston Churchill
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>
>>>> On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 1:42 PM, Patrick Nixon  wrote:
>>>>> Josh,
>>>>>  Not sure what you were saying there?
>>>>>
>>>>>  My goal is that if eto's conn goes red, that standby's conn should go
>>>>> clear if it also fails.
>>>>>
>>>>>  Does my depends statement not appear to work in that fashion?
>>>>>
>>>>> --Patrick
>>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 1:32 PM, Josh Luthman
>
>>>>>  wrote:
>>>>>> In stanby's DEPENDS statement referring to eto - not the testing of
>>>>>> the host.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Josh Luthman
>>>>>> Office: 937-552-2340
>>>>>> Direct: 937-552-2343
>>>>>> 1100 Wayne St
>>>>>> Suite 1337
>>>>>> Troy, OH 45373
>>>>>>
>>>>>> “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to
>>>>>> continue that counts.”
>>>>>> --- Winston Churchill
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>
>>>>>> On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 12:49 PM, Patrick Nixon  wrote:
>>>>>>> They're both testip
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 12:41 PM, Josh Luthman
>
>>>>>>>  wrote:
>>>>>>>> Looks right to me, maybe domain related (FQDN)?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Josh Luthman
>>>>>>>> Office: 937-552-2340
>>>>>>>> Direct: 937-552-2343
>>>>>>>> 1100 Wayne St
>>>>>>>> Suite 1337
>>>>>>>> Troy, OH 45373
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to
>>>>>>>> continue that counts.”
>>>>>>>> --- Winston Churchill
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>
>>>>>>>> On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 12:34 PM, Patrick Nixon  wrote:
>>>>>>>>> Hey all,
>>>>>>>>>  I'm trying to get depends working, but it's not working the way I
>>>>>>>>> expect it to.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>
>>>>>>>>> 10.18.16.172            standby                 # conn testip
>>>>>>>>> depends=(conn:eto/conn)
>>>>>>>>> 10.18.16.174            eto            # conn ssh snmp testip
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> eto is currently red, but standby, which is down as well, is also
>>>>>>>>> red.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> anything specific wrong with my depends statement?  Any reason why
>>>>>>>>> conn wouldn't be able to depend on something else?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Thanks!
>>>>>>>>> --Patrick
>>>>>>>>>
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