Go to hosts.cfg (or bb-hosts) and use DEPENDS and watch both alerts happen.

Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373

On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 4:06 PM, Ryan Novosielski <novosirj at umdnj.edu> wrote:

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I'd like a confirmation of this first. Broken how/etc.

On 02/08/2012 04:03 PM, Michael Baydoun wrote:

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DEPENDS is broken?  No wonder I can't get it to work.

On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 12:55 PM, Josh Luthman <josh at imaginenetworksllc.com <mailto:josh at imaginenetworksllc.com>> wrote:

    Use ROUTE as I think DEPENDS is broken.

    1.1.1.1 gateway.foo.com <http://gateway.foo.com> # 0.0.0.0 realserver.com <http://realserver.com> # route:gateway.foo.com <http://gateway.foo.com>

    realserver.com <http://realserver.com> will go yellow if gateway.foo.com <http://gateway.foo.com> is red

    Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 <tel:937-552-2340> Direct: 937-552-2343 <tel:937-552-2343> 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373

    On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 12:48 PM, Tom S <tsztur at gmail.com <mailto:tsztur at gmail.com>> wrote: > So our crappy server host (1and1) seems to be getting random network spikes > causing false alert emails to be sent out with Critical notifications. > I understand I can set alerts.cfg to only alert after a certain duration of > red but we need notifications to be sent right away in case of production > downtime. > > Is there an option where I can have XYMON ping a certain host, and if that > host is unreachable to ignore any other alerts? > eg.  I can run a ping on yahoo.com <http://yahoo.com> and example.com <http://example.com> , if either of those as > any connection issues, to ignore all other alerts for the time being? > > tia. > > _______________________________________________ > Xymon mailing list > Xymon at xymon.com <mailto:Xymon at xymon.com> > http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon > _______________________________________________ Xymon mailing list Xymon at xymon.com <mailto:Xymon at xymon.com> http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon

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