'depends' directive in config files
Gonzalo Perez Brun
perez_brun at hotmail.com
Thu Oct 29 19:36:28 EDT 2009
Thanks Scott. I hope that this behavior is what jeff writes in argus code.
Sombody check this with tcpdump?
> From: scott at hiemstra.us
> Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2009 20:10:19 -0400
> To: arguslist at tcp4me.com
> Subject: RE: 'depends' directive in config files
>
> Gonzalo,
>
> I try to think of it like this...
>
> Argus <-> test1 <-> test2
>
> If test1 is a router and test2 is a host on the other side of that router, there is no route to test2 if test1 goes down. I would then setup a dependancy statement where all tests to test2 depend on test1 being up.
>
> Psuedo-code for the logic process would be:
> If test1 is down then
> do nothing
> Else
> perform tests for test2
> Endif
>
> Something like this would go into the config for test2:
> depends: Top:test1
>
> I can't really think of any other way to explain it, perhaps someone else can jump in if this doesn't answer your question.
>
> Thanks,
> Scott
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gonzalo Perez Brun <perez_brun at hotmail.com>
> Sent: Monday, October 26, 2009 6:32 PM
> To: Listado de Colsultas ARGUS <arguslist at tcp4me.com>
> Subject: RE: 'depends' directive in config files
>
>
> Mr. Scott:
> Sorry for asking this but, i need to figureout how this works. If I have a test1 for example, and test1 depends on test2. If the test1 falldown, test2 stop being tested and assume that is down too?
> Thanks.
>
> Gonzalo.
>
> > From: shiemstra at h2.com
> > To: arguslist at tcp4me.com
> > Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2009 21:21:25 -0400
> > Subject: RE: 'depends' directive in config files
> >
> > The only real documentation I ever found for it was http://argus.tcp4me.com/config-details.html but it is very simple to use.
> >
> > Service TCP/URL {
> > url: http://someurl.somedomain.com
> > label: Some Friendly URL Name
> > browser: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Argus - just testing)
> > depends: Top:Servers:ServerName:Ping_servername.somedomain.com
> > }
> >
> > This would assume that http://someurl.somedomain.com was hosted on a serv
>
>
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