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Flexible server monitoring

Dependencies

Sat, 2010-01-16 12:53 — btosch

The feature I really need - unless I'm just missing it? - is a way to model dependencies. The biggest case is that I don't want to get alerts for web sites I monitor when my home internet connection has a problem. In nagios I make external services dependent on my router ping, dns server ping, and google.com check and I'd like to be able to do the same thing in Simon.

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Sat, 2010-01-16 13:05 — David Sinclair
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Re: Dependencies

Simon handles local internet outages automatically. Before each check, it checks that it can access one of two popular domains (apple.com and google.com, if I recall correctly), and if not, goes into an offline mode until the connection is restored.

You can disable this feature on a per-test basis via the checkbox to allow checking when offline (e.g. for local-only tests, or if you want to be alerted when your local internet is down).