Hi Henrik,

Am I right in thinking that nothing has changed on this front? I just tried to use depends with a custom test and it did not seem to have any effect (on Xymon 4.3.7)...

Dominique Frise wrote:

Hi,

This is an extract of a previous reply from Henrik ( <http://www.hobbitmon.com/hobbiton/2006/10/msg00141.html> http://www.hobbitmon.com/hobbiton/2006/10/msg00141.html):

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Henrik Stoerner wrote:

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Charles Jones wrote:

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*It would be nice if the depend tag worked for any column/test type*. I looked at using the "depends" tag, but it appears that *depends only works for network checks*.

Agreed. The dependency checks are currently implemented in the network test tool (bbtest-net), instead of in the hobbitd daemon - that is the reason why they only work for network tests. And that is purely for historical reasons.

I expect to move all of the dependency code into hobbitd soon, together with the combination-test handling (the stuff currenly done by bbcombotest), that will eliminate this rather silly restriction.

Regards, Henrik

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Are the above limitations been removed in the current snapshot? If not when is this going to be implemented?

Thanks.

Dominique UNIL - University of Lausanne

Kind regards,

SebA