RE: [hobbit] The Depends Tag

["Dugan, Darin D [EIT]" <dddugan (at) iastate.edu>]

Eric is right. When Toronto goes red oriole will go yellow with a
message like "The router toronto (IP:192.168.192.20) is not reachable,
causing this host to be unreachable."

 

You can also have multiple things in the route tag if it makes sense to
do so. I have a Hobbit server on our main LAN and monitored devices at
the far end of WAN links...so I use route to check the router at this
side, the router's WAN at the far side, and the router's LAN at the far
side. That quickly tells me if I have a router problem here, a WAN link
problem, or a LAN problem at the remote site.

 

Cheers.

D

 

 

From: Eric Meddaugh [mailto:etmsys (at) rit.edu] 
Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2007 9:15 AM
To: hobbit (at) hswn.dk
Subject: RE: [hobbit] The Depends Tag

 

 

I use the "route" tag for that instead:

 

192.168.192.20          toronto         # trace conn 

192.168.192.21          oriole           # trace conn route:Toronto

 

You'd get an alert on Toronto......  someone please correct me if my
understanding is wrong.

 

---Eric

 

 

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From: Michael A. Price [mailto:mprice (at) sgt-inc.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2007 07:30
To: hobbit (at) hswn.dk
Subject: [hobbit] The Depends Tag

 

Fellow Hobbit users,

 

I need a little help with something, it has stumped me...

 

 

I have two hosts on the same network, if one goes down. The other will
be down also because of a switch issue. I don't want to receive two
alerts. So I wrote in the depends tag, is this correct format???

 

192.168.192.20          toronto         # trace conn 

192.168.192.21          oriole           # trace conn
depends=(conn:toronto/conn)

 

 

If toronto is down and oriole is down, I just one one email alert.

 

Thanks for the help, michael