[Xymon] is depends broken?

[Josh Luthman]

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Josh Luthman
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On Aug 19, 2013 10:31 PM, "Galen Johnson" <Galen.Johnson at sas.com> wrote:

>  #2 sounds a lot like "flapping".  Does "depends" honor flapping or would
> a flapping server still show red?  Or am  I not understanding the situation?
>
> =G=
>
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> *From:* Xymon [xymon-bounces at xymon.com] on behalf of Troy Adams [
> troy at athabascau.ca]
> *Sent:* Monday, August 19, 2013 5:34 PM
> *To:* xymon
> *Subject:* [Xymon] is depends broken?
>
>    I have the following in my 'hosts.cfg':
>
> 209.85.225.105   google.com   # http://www.google.com
> XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX  www          # trace http://www depends=(http:
> google.com/http)
>
>
> Yesterday, the web server (www) was down for 55 minutes.  The Xymon record
> shows that:
>
>    1. google.com/http was green for that whole period
>    2. www/http bounced between red and clear for the whole period (with a
>    bounce frequency of 5 minutes)
>    3. My other Xymon server (configured without "depends") shows a solid
>    55 minute outage (red for 55 minutes).
>
> This behavior is not what I expect from reading the man page.
>
> I tried to reproduce this problem with "depends" on my test Xymon server
> and was able to confirm the same behavior.
>
> Is there a workaround to this problem with my Xymon 4.3.10 server?
>
>
> cheers,
>
> Troy
>
>
>
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