[Xymon] Depends tag on external tests

[John Thurston]

> On 1/12/2015 5:26 AM, Scot Kreienkamp wrote:
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> Does anyone know if the depends tag was ever moved out of the network
>> code and into the core so it works for external tests?  Last time
>> anyone asked that I could find on the mailing list was 2013.
> John Thurston wrote:
> Since I find references to 'dephostname', and 'deptestname' in xymonnet.c and no references in xymond, I suspect it still lives in xymonnet.

> On 1/12/2015 9:48 AM, Scot Kreienkamp wrote:> Thanks John.  Not what I was hoping to hear.  Guess I'll have to live with some spurious alarms.

Have you considered faking it with "combo" tests? No, they aren't the 
same thing as 'depends' tags, but you might be able to get the job done.

Look in the man pages for COMBO.CFG

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