Re: {bb} Primary notification

[Philip Clark <bblist@cannae.uklinux.net>]

On Tue, 2006-01-31 at 15:27, Ryan Novosielski wrote:
> I have a question about the way BB handles service notifications. I know 
> if the conn goes down, it doesn't run the other network tests. That's 
> pretty good, as I don't need 1100 notifications for the same service. Is 
> there any way to do this with other services as well? For example, if my 
> mail cluster goes down, there's no reason to page me about imap -- the 
> imap server will obviously not be functioning. I would, however, like to 
> know if imap goes down on its own.
> 
> Doable? Thanks.

AFAIK there isn't a mechanism that allows you to link arbitrary
tests into a chain of dependencies within BB. What you can do,
however, is split off related tests into an external script and
build in the exact logic that you require.

Cheers, Phil.



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