[hobbit] Feature suggestion?

On Fri, 2005-05-20 at 09:29 +0200, Gee Pee wrote:

Hi all,

I've heard from a Nagios(?)-feature that I would like to see in (a future) Hobbit release very much, alerting based on dependies. [...]

Will this be possible some day?

man bb-hosts [...] depends=(testA:host1/test1,host2/test2),(testB:host3/test3),[...] This tag allows you to define dependencies betweeen tests. If "testA" for the current host depends on "test1" for host "host1" and test "test2" for "host2", this can be defined with depends=(testA:host1/test1,host2/test2)

When  deciding  the  color  to  report  for  testA,  if   either

host1/test1 failed or host2/test2 failed, if testA has failed also then the color of testA will be "clear" instead of red or yellow.

Since  all  tests  are  actually run before the dependencies are

evaluated, you can use any host/test in the dependency - regard-less of the actual sequence that the hosts are listed, or the tests run. It is also valid to use tests from the same host that the dependency is for. E.g.

  1.2.3.4  foo # http://foo/ webmin depends=(webmin:foo/http)

is valid; if both the http and the webmin tests fail, then webmin will be reported as clear.

Note: The "depends" tag is evaluated on the BBNET  server  while

running the network tests. It can therefore only refer to other network tests that are handled by the same BBNET server - there is currently no way to use the e.g. the status of locally run tests (disk, cpu, msgs) or network tests from other BBNET servers in a dependency definition. Such dependencies are silently ignored.

-- Daniel J McDonald, CCIE # 2495, CNX Austin Energy

dan.mcdonald at austinenergy.com