depends & conn test

list Daniel Bourque
Tue, 09 Oct 2007 16:52:13 -0500
Message-Id: <user-7199e2ec8cdd@xymon.invalid>
Hi,

    I've looked up the list archive and there doesn't seem to be any answer to this problem, the "depends" doesn't work with the "conn" test.

    I have a bunch of remote kiosks connected via vpn and other means. Some I can ping and some I can't. I can always ssh to them, therefore ssh is the main connectivity test for all them.

    I'm trying make those test dependent on our internet connection.

   In my bb-hosts file, I've added www.yahoo.com as a host and added  depends=(ssh:www.yahoo.com/conn)  to the kiosk machine definition in the bb-hosts file.

   In order to test that, I setup hosts foo and bar in my lab, defined the,as follow:

x.x.x.x foo
x.x.x.x bar # ssh noconn depends=(ssh:foor/conn)


I unplug foo and bar's network cable, and sometimes later I get a page regarding the ssh on bar

interestingly, bar's ssh test history shows this:

Tue Oct 09 16:43:25 2007 red <http://lisa.wdi-net.com/hobbit-cgi/bb-histlog.sh?HOST=daim01&SERVICE=ssh&TIMEBUF=Tue_Oct_9_16:43:25_2007>0:00:43 
Tue Oct 09 16:43:15 2007 clear <http://lisa.wdi-net.com/hobbit-cgi/bb-histlog.sh?HOST=daim01&SERVICE=ssh&TIMEBUF=Tue_Oct_9_16:43:15_2007>0:00:10 
Tue Oct 09 16:38:20 2007 red <http://lisa.wdi-net.com/hobbit-cgi/bb-histlog.sh?HOST=daim01&SERVICE=ssh&TIMEBUF=Tue_Oct_9_16:38:20_2007>0:04:55 
Tue Oct 09 16:38:15 2007 clear <http://lisa.wdi-net.com/hobbit-cgi/bb-histlog.sh?HOST=daim01&SERVICE=ssh&TIMEBUF=Tue_Oct_9_16:38:15_2007>0:00:05 
Tue Oct 09 16:34:16 2007 red <http://lisa.wdi-net.com/hobbit-cgi/bb-histlog.sh?HOST=daim01&SERVICE=ssh&TIMEBUF=Tue_Oct_9_16:34:16_2007>0:03:59 
Tue Oct 09 16:33:15 2007 clear <http://lisa.wdi-net.com/hobbit-cgi/bb-histlog.sh?HOST=daim01&SERVICE=ssh&TIMEBUF=Tue_Oct_9_16:33:15_2007>0:01:01 
Tue Oct 09 16:29:07 2007 red <http://lisa.wdi-net.com/hobbit-cgi/bb-histlog.sh?HOST=daim01&SERVICE=ssh&TIMEBUF=Tue_Oct_9_16:29:07_2007>0:04:08 
Tue Oct 09 16:28:12 2007 clear <http://lisa.wdi-net.com/hobbit-cgi/bb-histlog.sh?HOST=daim01&SERVICE=ssh&TIMEBUF=Tue_Oct_9_16:28:12_2007>0:00:55
Tue Oct 09 15:55:20 2007 green <http://lisa.wdi-net.com/hobbit-cgi/bb-histlog.sh?HOST=daim01&SERVICE=ssh&TIMEBUF=Tue_Oct_9_15:55:20_2007>0:32:52


Anyone using the conn test as a dependency out there ? Can anyone confirm that is does or does NOT work ?

Thanks

-Dan