[xymon] RE: xymon test dependencies

[Marco Avvisano]

Il 14/10/2010 11.09, Buchan Milne ha scritto:
> On Wednesday, 13 October 2010 19:06:08 Patrick Nixon wrote:
>    
>> Last I checked, the depends wasn't working properly and I haven't seen a
>> release.
>>      
> This works for me:
> a.b.c.d    dnscache1.xxxx        # dns=a:www.google.com testip
> depends=(dns:UPSTREAMLINK/conn)
>
> (where UPSTREAMLINK is the name of a bb-hosts entry that has a conn check for
> our next hop(s)).
>
> If UPSTERAMLINK.conn is red, and the dns test fails, it goed clear instead of
> red (well, it can be red for a brief period, so one should alert on red with
> DURATION greater than the time your bbtest-net cycle actually takes - in my
> case the time taken when DNS is unavailable)
>
> If you have a case where it is not working according to the documentation,
> please discuss and file a bug if necessary.
>
> Note though that depends only works for tests run by bbtest-net, AFAIK you
> can't have a network check depending on a ports (client data) check, or have
> one host checked by one bbtest-net instance depend on a network test checked
> by another bbtest-net instance. This is covered in the bb-hosts(5) coverage
> for the 'depends' tag.
>
>    
It would be great if it could work for all the test

Marco


> Regards,
> Buchan
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