[hobbit] Depends Question

[Johan Sjöberg]

Yes, route works fine.
We always use it when monitoring stuff over VPN, to avoid getting 50 e-mails if the VPN goes down.

But my experience is that conn for the "routed" hosts go yellow, not clear, if the "router" doesn't respond to ping. Could be worth considering if you have alerts configured for yellow.

/Johan

From: Geoff Hallford [mailto:geoff.hallford at gmail.com]
Sent: den 6 juli 2010 21:57
To: hobbit at hswn.dk
Subject: Re: [hobbit] Depends Question

I have always used "route" and it works perfectly if conn is all you care about. I have never actually gotten "depends" to work. It doesn't make the ping go through any host you put in route and it also chains properly to make it easier. Example:

10.10.10.10  server1 # conn route:network1
20.20.20.20  network1 # conn route:network2
30.30.30.30  network2 # conn

If the route to server1 is: hobbit -> network2 -> network1 -> server1

The above statement works, that if network2 is down ... network1 and server1 go blank :)

On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 2:35 PM, <wiskbroom at hotmail.com<mailto:wiskbroom at hotmail.com>> wrote:

I have nothing to add to this thread, but it looks like "depends" might be helpful for a problem I am currently having with a pair of servers, whereby one at a time will show a process as running, the other not.  So as long as one of these machines is running this app, the color should stay green.

.vp

> I've not experienced that behavior. Use this for dsl/cable modems and
> our routers for 3+ years.
>
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> On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 1:54 PM, Patrick Nixon  wrote:
>> I read somewhere that if you use route, it does something weird with
>> the pings so they go through that host or something?
>>
>> Let me test it and see how it behaves
>>
>> --patrick
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 1:46 PM, Josh Luthman
>>  wrote:
>>> I'm not certain of this because I've always used FQDN.
>>>
>>> If you have FQDN=true and are not using them, maybe the DEPENDS tag
>>> isn't finding eto correct?
>>>
>>> In your case, as it is conn, you can use route
>>>
>>> 1.2.32.4    customer.router.com<http://customer.router.com> # testip route:customer.cablemodem.com<http://customer.cablemodem.com>
>>>
>>> Josh Luthman
>>> Office: 937-552-2340
>>> Direct: 937-552-2343
>>> 1100 Wayne St
>>> Suite 1337
>>> Troy, OH 45373
>>>
>>> "Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to
>>> continue that counts."
>>> --- Winston Churchill
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 1:42 PM, Patrick Nixon  wrote:
>>>> Josh,
>>>>  Not sure what you were saying there?
>>>>
>>>>  My goal is that if eto's conn goes red, that standby's conn should go
>>>> clear if it also fails.
>>>>
>>>>  Does my depends statement not appear to work in that fashion?
>>>>
>>>> --Patrick
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 1:32 PM, Josh Luthman
>>>>  wrote:
>>>>> In stanby's DEPENDS statement referring to eto - not the testing of the host.
>>>>>
>>>>> Josh Luthman
>>>>> Office: 937-552-2340
>>>>> Direct: 937-552-2343
>>>>> 1100 Wayne St
>>>>> Suite 1337
>>>>> Troy, OH 45373
>>>>>
>>>>> "Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to
>>>>> continue that counts."
>>>>> --- Winston Churchill
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 12:49 PM, Patrick Nixon  wrote:
>>>>>> They're both testip
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 12:41 PM, Josh Luthman
>>>>>>  wrote:
>>>>>>> Looks right to me, maybe domain related (FQDN)?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Josh Luthman
>>>>>>> Office: 937-552-2340
>>>>>>> Direct: 937-552-2343
>>>>>>> 1100 Wayne St
>>>>>>> Suite 1337
>>>>>>> Troy, OH 45373
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> "Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to
>>>>>>> continue that counts."
>>>>>>> --- Winston Churchill
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 12:34 PM, Patrick Nixon  wrote:
>>>>>>>> Hey all,
>>>>>>>>  I'm trying to get depends working, but it's not working the way I expect it to.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> 10.18.16.172            standby                 # conn testip
>>>>>>>> depends=(conn:eto/conn)
>>>>>>>> 10.18.16.174            eto            # conn ssh snmp testip
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> eto is currently red, but standby, which is down as well, is also red.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> anything specific wrong with my depends statement?  Any reason why
>>>>>>>> conn wouldn't be able to depend on something else?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Thanks!
>>>>>>>> --Patrick
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