Hobbit dependencies and/or route statement??? 🔗 link

I have been trying to setup dependencies:

 
I want to have only one alert from the 116 switch if all 3 go down -
simulation of losing a router/link:

I don't want alerts from the 117 and 118 switches unless they go down
independently.

 
FIRST try using 'depends':

 
I have three old Linksys switches setup on a smaller switch attached to
the network.

I created the following bb-hosts entries:

128.170.41.116  Linksys-116             # conn

128.170.41.117  Linksys-117             #
depends=(conn:Linksys-116/conn)

128.170.41.118  Linksys-118             #
depends=(conn:Linksys-116/conn)

 
RESULT:   If I disconnect all switches, all turn RED and all alert

                   If one goes down it shows RED and alerts

 
SECOND try using 'route'"

 
128.170.41.116  Linksys-116              # conn

128.170.41.117  Linksys-117              # route:128.170.41.116

128.170.41.118  Linksys-118              # route:128.170.41.116

 
RESULT:  Same as depends, no difference

 
These are the entries in the hobbit-alerts.cfg file:

HOST=Linksys-116 SERVICE=conn REPEAT=4d RECOVERED

                      MAIL user-9c1ae820b621@xymon.invalid

HOST=Linksys-117 SERVICE=conn REPEAT=4d RECOVERED

                      MAIL user-9c1ae820b621@xymon.invalid

HOST=Linksys-118 SERVICE=conn REPEAT=4d RECOVERED

                       MAIL user-9c1ae820b621@xymon.invalid

 
I must not be understanding how to make a dependency structure work?

 
I am running XYMON 4.3.0-0.beta2.

 
Thanks,

 
Tom Schmitt

Senior IT Staff - R&D

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Well, the route tag can be used to encode the path between the BBNET host
and the target.  It only applies to network tests -- client tests are on
their own.

In your case, you are setting up the 116 switch to be the path between your
monitoring server and the other two switches.  So, if you disconnect 116,
117, and 118 at the same time you should see 116 go read, and the others
turn yellow.  Only 116 should alert.  In theory, that is.

However, you have all three switches on the same subnet which makes this a
bit hard to test.  It would be better if you could put a router in front of
them, or configure 116 to act like a router and then put 117 and 118 on
different subnets.

I do not use the DEPEND tag myself, so I do not know how it works.

GLH

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user-9c1ae820b621@xymon.invalid wrote:

Try:

128.170.41.116  Linksys-116              # conn

128.170.41.117  Linksys-117              # route:Linksys-116

128.170.41.118  Linksys-118              # route:Linksys-116


I have route: working fine for me in my network. You need to use the
host names not IP addresses.


David.

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