[Xymon] depends tag limitations (again)

[SebA]

Hi Henrik,
 
Am I right in thinking that nothing has changed on this front?  I just tried
to use depends with a custom test and it did not seem to have any effect (on
Xymon 4.3.7)...
 
Dominique Frise wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> This is an extract of a previous reply from Henrik (
<http://www.hobbitmon.com/hobbiton/2006/10/msg00141.html>
http://www.hobbitmon.com/hobbiton/2006/10/msg00141.html):
> 
> 
> -----------
> Henrik Stoerner wrote:
> > Charles Jones wrote:
> > > *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
> -----------
> 
> Are the above limitations been removed in the current snapshot?
> If not when is this going to be implemented?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Dominique
> UNIL - University of Lausanne
> 

Kind regards, 

SebA

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