Hi!
I've been trying a few things to get the correct alerts to the correct staff-member, but for some reason I cannot get it to work. In order to find out if I'm doing something wrong within the configuration of Xymon, or if I have to search somewhere else, I'm reaching out here to see if anyone can give me any pointers.
The scenario is that I have one particular host, that should be running a specific process. Let's say this process is "notepad.exe" - if "notepad.exe" is not running, John should get an email.
What I have done so far is this:
1. Edited the configuration file on my host as follows in the "procs section": <setting name="notepad.exe" rule="=1" comment="Notepad" alarmcolor="red" />
a. My goal here is to check if there is one instance of notepad.exe running - if not, give a "red alert".
b. This seems to be working. The host in the web-view of Xymon turns red in the procs column, and notepad.exe is shown as running -1 instance if there is not one running. So far so good!
2. Now I want John to be alerted if notepad is not running so I have edited the alert.cfg in the following way:
a. HOST=myhostname(the same as in hosts.cfg NAME:myhostname) SERVICE=notepad.exe MAIL user-0c5490feca90@xymon.invalid<mailto:user-0c5490feca90@xymon.invalid> DURATION>10 COLOR=red
b. As "notepad.exe is not a service, but a process this is not working. AS "procs" is not a valid argument(at least not listed in the documentation, SERVICE was the closest thing that came to mind. So my question is simply, is there a way to filter alerts by the procs column or will I have to attack this in another way?
c. I would like to avoid John getting nagged by any other red-alerts from this host, as his responsibility is notepad. :)
Any pointers would be highly appreciated!
Sicnerely,
Even Hauge Juberg
Senior Engineer
Norwegian Biodiversity Information Centre