RE: [xymon] conditional or dependent alerts

[Kenneth Falor <kenneth.falor (at) fcer.com>]

Yes they are conn tests.  I looked in the docs and the demo site at http://www.xymon.com/
but could not find any examples of how to use 'route' beyond what is halfway down http://www.xymon.com/hobbit/help/manpages/man5/bb-hosts.5.html

Part of my bb-hosts page looks like this:

group-compress Plan ER
10.1.64.99		PLANPRT			# ping
10.1.64.254		TXPLA2401er.fw.int		# ping
24.15.8.130		TXPLA2401er.fw.ext		# ping
24.15.8.129		TXPLA2401er.gateway		# ping
24.15.8.249		TXPLA2401er.serial		# ping
24.15.8.250		TXPLA2401er.Grande.serial	# ping
10.1.64.12		PlanER.power			# ping
16.155.240.142	PlanER.cellbackup		# !conn

So if I did not want multiple alerts for the failure of any part of the WAN would I add a new rule to bb-hosts page like:

Route:TXPLA2401er.fw.int,TXPLA2401er.fw.ext,TXPLA2401er.gateway,TXPLA2401er.serial,TXPLA2401er.Grande.serial


Anyone have an example of how to use route that they can share?


Kenneth


-----Original Message-----
From: Josh Luthman [mailto:josh (at) imaginenetworksllc.com] 
Sent: Friday, July 16, 2010 11:56 AM
To: xymon (at) xymon.com
Subject: Re: [xymon] conditional or dependent alerts

Is it all conn tests?  Use route if so.

On 7/16/10, Kenneth Falor <kenneth.falor (at) fcer.com> wrote:
> Greetings, I need so assistance in setting up "conditional" or "dependent"
> alert status on hobbit, so for example, if the firewall dies, it knows that
> devices X, Y and Z are "dependent" on the firewall, therefore it won't tell
> us about 55 things that are down, just tell us the firewall is down?
>
> This is a major pain in the rump every time we lose a VPN tunnel and we all
> get 100 text messages.
>
>
>
> Kenneth
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