[xymon] RE: xymon test dependencies

[Patrick Nixon]

Last I checked, the depends wasn't working properly and I haven't seen a
release.

--Patrick


On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 1:54 PM, Taylor Lewick
<tlewick at tradebotsystems.com>wrote:

> OK, thanks, any opinions on whether it is better to use route, or depends?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Johan Sjöberg [mailto:johan.sjoberg at deltamanagement.se]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2010 12:34 PM
> To: xymon at xymon.com
> Subject: [xymon] RE: xymon test dependencies
>
> Hi.
>
> Use the "route" setting. For each connected device, add "route:
> switch.company.com". That way, if the conn test of the switch fails, any
> conn test for the connected devices will go yellow instead of red.
>
> /Johan
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Taylor Lewick [mailto:tlewick at tradebotsystems.com]
> Sent: den 13 oktober 2010 18:01
> To: xymon at xymon.com
> Subject: [xymon] xymon test dependencies
>
> From the xymon.com webpage is this snippit...
>
> ---
> Combined super-tests and test interdependencies ...
>    Tests can also be configured to depend on each other, so that when a
> critical router goes down you will get alerts only for the router - and not
> from the 200 hosts behind the router.
> ---
>
> I'm not seeing how to set this type of testing up, basically event
> correlation, so that if a switch goes down, hobbit knows not to send alerts
> for each connected host.
>
> Can some point me in the right direction, i.e. specific man-page, or just
> show me an example of how to configure this?
>
> Thanks,
> Taylor
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