Thanks so much for this suggestion, and thanks Chris for your pointing
out what I should have looked into before posting....
This is great, choices!
cheers, Phil
On 3/31/2011 at 2:33 AM, in message
<user-1c7801433d5d@xymon.invalid>,
"Dugan,
Darin D [EIT]" <user-b33a1547d27a@xymon.invalid> wrote:
Phil,
In addition to the 'depends' tag as suggested by Chris Morris, you
may also
consider the 'route' tag. I find it simpler to use for wan sites,
though the
behavior is somewhat different. Whereas depends will make dependent
tests go
clear, route makes conn tests go yellow with a message that it is
down
because device ABC is down. Something like:
1.2.3.4 wan_router # conn
1.2.3.5 site_router # conn route:wan_router
1.2.3.6 site_switch # conn route:wan_router,site_router
1.2.3.7 print_server # conn ftp
route:wan_router,site_router,site_switch
So if wan_router goes down the other three will go yellow and
therefore not
alert. And when a tech looks at the yellow status it will plainly
state it is
down because wan_router is down.
Cheers.