[hobbit] What is the word on the "depends" tag?

[Geoff Hallford]

>From my experience the depends tag does NOT work. Use the route tag for host
dependencies. Unfortunately, it doesn't work for service dependencies.

On 3/2/07, Gary Baluha <gumby3203 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> What is the word on the "depends" tag?  Does it work or not?  It seems
> there are a number of posts that seem to suggest it doesn't work properly.
>
> Essentially, what I'm trying to do is set up a dependency for a website
> content check so that if the physical machine that it runs on is down for
> maintenance, the website content check won't go red.  When we schedule
> maintenance for a machine, we generally disable the tests for that machine
> in Hobbit so we don't get unnecessarily paged.  What I'd like to have happen
> is if I disable the tests for "webserver", then the "web-test" content check
> will also be disabled (or at least not page).  An example of what I'm trying
> to set up is below:
>
> 1.2.3.4 webserver
> 0.0.0.0 web-test # cont=<blah> depends=(cont:webserver/conn)
>
> My question is, first, will the use of the "depends" tag as I have above
> accomplish what I want?  And second, does the "depends" tag actually work,
> or should I try using some other dependency-type tag in Hobbit?
>



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