I'm currently using sensu and Uchiwa in an attempt to get rid of Zabbix, the problem is some checks persist even though they're dependent on other check. For example: I have a check that checks if the vpn process is active:
"vpn-process": {
"command": "check-process.rb -f /var/run/openvpn/client.pid",
"subscribers": [
"uni"
],
"interval": 60,
"dependencies": [
"http-url1",
"http-url2",
"http-url3"
]
},
And I also have a check for http response, but this shouldn't work if the vpn is down.
"http-url1": {
"command": "python /etc/sensu/plugins/check-http.py https://url",
"subscribers": [
"uni"
],
"interval": 60
},
Still, Uchiwa warns about the VPN check and the HTTP checks. Uchiwa showing VPN and HTTP checks
I read about the dependency check filters, but as far as I could understand, it only works for handlers and Uchiwa is not a handler?
It seems you can't use Uchiwa as a handler (I checked with the maintainers), I had to write my own in python to call the API everytime the VPN is down and silence the checks I don't want to be shown in the dashboard. This way I created my own dependency.
