[Xymon] Depends tag on external tests

[Scot Kreienkamp]

I have combo tests for failover pairs but I'm not sure how to apply combo here to eliminate the extra notification.

I have an external that pulls status from our load balancer.  If a backend server fails then I would rather be alerted on the backend server only since it is the problem.   I could add a combo status to give me the backend server test results on a separate column on the load balancer VIP, but I still can't silence the existing external test on the load balancer VIP that alerts when a backend server is down because the backend servers could be marked offline in the load balancer for reasons that Xymon can't test for (IE administratively down, troubleshooting, upgrades, etc.).  I don't see any way to use combo to silence the information I don't need in this case.

Scot Kreienkamp

-----Original Message-----
From: Xymon [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of John Thurston
Sent: Monday, January 12, 2015 2:00 PM
To: xymon at xymon.com
Subject: Re: [Xymon] Depends tag on external tests


> On 1/12/2015 5:26 AM, Scot Kreienkamp wrote:
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> Does anyone know if the depends tag was ever moved out of the network
>> code and into the core so it works for external tests?  Last time
>> anyone asked that I could find on the mailing list was 2013.
> John Thurston wrote:
> Since I find references to 'dephostname', and 'deptestname' in xymonnet.c and no references in xymond, I suspect it still lives in xymonnet.

> On 1/12/2015 9:48 AM, Scot Kreienkamp wrote:> Thanks John.  Not what I was hoping to hear.  Guess I'll have to live with some spurious alarms.

Have you considered faking it with "combo" tests? No, they aren't the same thing as 'depends' tags, but you might be able to get the job done.

Look in the man pages for COMBO.CFG

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