From my experience the depends tag does NOT work. Use the route tag for host dependencies. Unfortunately, it doesn't work for service dependencies.

On 3/2/07, Gary Baluha <gumby3203 at gmail.com> wrote:

What is the word on the "depends" tag? Does it work or not? It seems there are a number of posts that seem to suggest it doesn't work properly.

Essentially, what I'm trying to do is set up a dependency for a website content check so that if the physical machine that it runs on is down for maintenance, the website content check won't go red. When we schedule maintenance for a machine, we generally disable the tests for that machine in Hobbit so we don't get unnecessarily paged. What I'd like to have happen is if I disable the tests for "webserver", then the "web-test" content check will also be disabled (or at least not page). An example of what I'm trying to set up is below:

1.2.3.4 webserver 0.0.0.0 web-test # cont=<blah> depends=(cont:webserver/conn)

My question is, first, will the use of the "depends" tag as I have above accomplish what I want? And second, does the "depends" tag actually work, or should I try using some other dependency-type tag in Hobbit?

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