[Xymon] Depends tag working configuration

[Mario]

Hello Scot,

Yes, I know the route tag and I already use it here for the upstream cases.
But my necessity here is to have a dependency between some networks tests,
for example, conn/ssh, conn/smtp, conn/http.

In my example, when the conn test was failing on 6030 and as the conn test
was ok/up on 5030 then the correct status for 6030/conn should be clear and
not red, right?

10.0.0.139  6030 # http://paq depends=(conn:5030/conn) testip
10.0.0.137  5030 # http://fara  testip

I´ve made some tests and it seems that the depends tag do not works with
any conn configuration.
Does not matter the "position" on the tag, depends=(conn:5030/http),
depends=(http:5030/conn) or depends=(conn:5030/conn), any of this works.

I´ve read some old emails on the list with the same question on "depends &
conn" but without a solution.



Thanks & regards,
Mario


On Mon, Apr 4, 2016 at 4:15 PM, Scot Kreienkamp <
Scot.Kreienkamp at la-z-boy.com> wrote:

> Mario,
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> If I’m understanding your email correctly, you changed the IP on 6030 to a
> non-pingable address, correct?  If so, then you are performing your test
> incorrectly.  The tag you posted means that 6030 depends on 5030, but to
> test it you changed the IP on 6030 only.  To test it with the tag you
> posted, 5030 and 6030 must BOTH be non-pingable.  In that scenario the conn
> test on 6030 should change to clear.
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> Also, if you only want a connectivity test then you may be looking at the
> wrong tag.  Look up the route tag that goes in hosts.cfg and see if that
> will give you what you want.
>
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>
> *Scot Kreienkamp  | Senior Systems Engineer | La-Z-Boy Corporate*
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> *From:* Mario [mailto:rower.master at gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Monday, April 04, 2016 3:09 PM
> *To:* Scot Kreienkamp <Scot.Kreienkamp at la-z-boy.com>; xymon at xymon.com
> *Subject:* Re: [Xymon] Depends tag working configuration
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> Hi Scot,
>
> Thanks for your help.
> I´ve used your example and the dependency worked using the http test.
>
> So then, I´ve changed the depends tag configuration to use the conn test
> and this didn't work.
>
> First test (worked as expected!):
> - Stopping apache on "6030" the result was a clear status on 6030/http as
> 5030/http was up.
>
> 0.0.0.0  6030 # http://paq depends=(http:5030/http) noconn
> 0.0.0.0  5030 # http://fara  noconn
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> Second test (connectivity configuration on depends): This test didn´t
> work.
> - I´ve changed the IP from 6030 to a non pingable IP and let an
> available/online IP on "5030" and the depends tag didn´t work.
>
> 10.0.0.139  6030 # http://paq depends=(conn:5030/conn) testip
> 10.0.0.137  5030 # http://fara  testip
>
> Do you have a dependency configuration based on connectivity test working
> on your system?
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> Thanks & Regards,
>
> Mario
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> On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 4:45 PM, Scot Kreienkamp <
> Scot.Kreienkamp at la-z-boy.com> wrote:
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> Sure.  Here is a working config:
>
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> 0.0.0.0    6030 # http:// 6030:8090/Main/ depends=(http:5030/http)
>
> 0.0.0.0  5030 # http://5030
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> So I’ve defined an HTTP test on 5030 and 6030, and set the HTTP test
> result on 6030 to depend on the HTTP test on 5030.  In my case, 5030 is the
> DB server and serves up a web page if the database is up.  If the database
> is down there’s no way the HTTP test will succeed on 6030, so I don’t
> really care if 6030 is alerting me in that case.
>
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> If you have any more trouble it would be helpful to see your
> configuration.  I saw you mention ICMP earlier… keep in mind that depends
> sets a test dependent on another test, so if you want ICMP you have to set
> it to depend on the conn test.  You can’t use ICMP in the depends.  It has
> to be a column name.
>
> *From:* Xymon [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] *On Behalf Of *Mario
>
> *Sent:* Monday, March 28, 2016 3:04 PM
> *To:*xymon at xymon.com
> *Subject:* Re: [Xymon] Depends tag working configuration
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> Hi,
>
> Thanks, Scot.
>
> Yes, that´s what I´m doing here.
> The test configuration was done with only core network tests and that are
> directly running on the core server and it´s not working.
>
> Do you have this configuration working on your server? Could you share it?
>
> Thanks & Regards,
>
> Mario
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> On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 3:43 PM, Scot Kreienkamp <
> Scot.Kreienkamp at la-z-boy.com> wrote:
>
> The depends tag works, but only for tests done by the core network tester
> itself.  It will not work on any external tests.
>
> *From:* Xymon [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] *On Behalf Of *Mario
> *Sent:* Monday, March 28, 2016 2:41 PM
> *To:*xymon at xymon.com
> *Subject:* [Xymon] Depends tag working configuration
>
>
>
> Hi All,
>
> I´m trying to make the "depends=" hosts.cfg tag to work on Xymon version
> 4.3.24.
>
> Reading some old threads here, it became not clear to me if this
> configuration tag currently works or not.
>
> Has someone here have the depends tag working?
>
> I know I can use the route tag, but my intention it´s to use another
> network protocol and not ICMP for the dependency.
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> Thanks & Regards,
>
> Mario
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