Eric is right. When Toronto goes red oriole will go yellow with a message like "The router toronto (IP:192.168.192.20) is not reachable, causing this host to be unreachable."
You can also have multiple things in the route tag if it makes sense to do so. I have a Hobbit server on our main LAN and monitored devices at the far end of WAN links...so I use route to check the router at this side, the router's WAN at the far side, and the router's LAN at the far side. That quickly tells me if I have a router problem here, a WAN link problem, or a LAN problem at the remote site.
Cheers.
D
From: Eric Meddaugh [mailto:etmsys at rit.edu] Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2007 9:15 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: RE: [hobbit] The Depends Tag
I use the "route" tag for that instead:
192.168.192.20 toronto # trace conn
192.168.192.21 oriole # trace conn route:Toronto
You'd get an alert on Toronto...... someone please correct me if my understanding is wrong.
---Eric
From: Michael A. Price [mailto:mprice at sgt-inc.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2007 07:30 To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: [hobbit] The Depends Tag
Fellow Hobbit users,
I need a little help with something, it has stumped me...
I have two hosts on the same network, if one goes down. The other will be down also because of a switch issue. I don't want to receive two alerts. So I wrote in the depends tag, is this correct format???
192.168.192.20 toronto # trace conn
192.168.192.21 oriole # trace conn depends=(conn:toronto/conn)
If toronto is down and oriole is down, I just one one email alert.
Thanks for the help, michael