[Xymon] is depends broken?

[Galen Johnson]

#2 sounds a lot like "flapping".  Does "depends" honor flapping or would a flapping server still show red?  Or am  I not understanding the situation?

=G=

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From: Xymon [xymon-bounces at xymon.com] on behalf of Troy Adams [troy at athabascau.ca]
Sent: Monday, August 19, 2013 5:34 PM
To: xymon
Subject: [Xymon] is depends broken?

I have the following in my 'hosts.cfg':
209.85.225.105   google.com   # http://www.google.com
XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX  www          # trace http://www depends=(http:google.com/http)

Yesterday, the web server (www) was down for 55 minutes.  The Xymon record shows that:

  1.  google.com/http was green for that whole period
  2.  www/http bounced between red and clear for the whole period (with a bounce frequency of 5 minutes)
  3.  My other Xymon server (configured without "depends") shows a solid 55 minute outage (red for 55 minutes).

This behavior is not what I expect from reading the man page.

I tried to reproduce this problem with "depends" on my test Xymon server and was able to confirm the same behavior.

Is there a workaround to this problem with my Xymon 4.3.10 server?


cheers,

Troy




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