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questions about hobbit-alerts.cfg and hobbit-clients.cfg

list Steinar M. Skúlason
Thu, 12 Mar 2009 09:20:30 +0000
Message-Id: <user-c4f70709cb80@xymon.invalid>

HOST=$WINBLOWS
        MAIL user-eb75f0bb94a3@xymon.invalid RECOVERED DURATION>5 REPEAT=60
SERVICE=BSOD
        SCRIPT /usr/lib/hobbit/server/ext/send-sms.sh <my-phone-number>
FORMAT=PLAIN DURATION>30 RECOVERED REPEAT=60 COLOR=red SERVICE=BSOD

REPEAT is valid for both SCRIPT and MAIL - but not for host.


-Steinar

On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 6:36 AM, Kip, D. - GDI/SNB <user-a81387f605a8@xymon.invalid>wrote:
The 'REPEAT=' needs to be in the 'SCRIPT' line, not the 'HOST' line.

Here's a part of my hobbit-alerts that works fine (though in this case they
happen to be 'MAIL'...):


HOST=*
       MAIL user-a32a29de9be6@xymon.invalid SERVICE=conn,disk COLOR=red
TIME=*:0000:2400 EXPAGE=$EXPAGEUNIX REPEAT=1d  EXHOST=$EXHOSTSUNIX
DURATION>6

HOST=gbodb006
       MAIL user-a32a29de9be6@xymon.invalid SERVICE=omni COLOR=yellow,red FORMAT=TEXT
TIME=W:1200:1800 REPEAT=1h


-----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
Van: Gé Janssen [mailto:user-876f637131f0@xymon.invalid]
Verzonden: maandag 9 maart 2009 22:49
Aan: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Onderwerp: [hobbit] questions about hobbit-alerts.cfg and
hobbit-clients.cfg

Hello,

Today, after a friend had problems with is apache, I was sending a sms
every 5 minutes.

Unfortunately this is my private phone so 1 sms per hour seems acceptable.

My rule states: (as found in the example on the manpage)

HOST=venus SERVICE=* REPEAT=1h TIME=*:0800:2200 COLOR=red
       SCRIPT /usr/local/bin/sendsmshobbit.sh 31652345678 FORMAT=sms

HOST=www.linix.be SERVICE=* REPEAT=1h TIME=*:0800:2200 COLOR=red
       SCRIPT /usr/local/bin/sendsmshobbit.sh 324567890123  FORMAT=sms

HOST=home.nouwen.name SERVICE=* REPEAT=1h TIME=*:1000:2200 COLOR=red
       SCRIPT /usr/local/bin/sendsmshobbit.sh 31652345678  FORMAT=sms

HOST=www.jos.nouwen.name SERVICE=* REPEAT=1h TIME=*:1000:2200 COLOR=red
       SCRIPT /usr/local/bin/sendsmshobbit.sh 31652345678  FORMAT=sms

my logfile states:
2009-03-09 18:46:07 Ignored unknown/unexpected token 'REPEAT=1h' at line
120
2009-03-09 18:46:07 Ignored unknown/unexpected token 'REPEAT=1h' at line
123
2009-03-09 18:46:07 Ignored unknown/unexpected token 'REPEAT=1h' at line
126
2009-03-09 18:46:07 Ignored unknown/unexpected token 'REPEAT=1h' at line
129


Clearly my solution was the "repeat" field. According to the internal
documentation, this should be in mintes:

#    REPEAT    - How often an alert gets repeated, in minutes.
The html manpage:
REPEAT    How often an alert gets repeated. As with the DURATION
setting, this is in minutes unless explicitly modified with 'm', 'h', 'd'.

Ok, if this is what we need. In minutes:

HOST=venus SERVICE=* REPEAT=60 TIME=*:0800:2200 COLOR=red
       SCRIPT /usr/local/bin/sendsmshobbit.sh 31652345678 FORMAT=sms


My logfile states

/usr/local/bin/sendsms $RCPT "$BBALPHAMSG"
+ /usr/local/bin/sendsms 31652345678 'home.nouwen.name:conn red [587147'
2009-03-09 21:49:17 Ignored unknown/unexpected token 'REPEAT=60' at line
120
2009-03-09 21:49:17 Ignored unknown/unexpected token 'REPEAT=60' at line
123
2009-03-09 21:49:17 Ignored unknown/unexpected token 'REPEAT=60' at line
126
2009-03-09 21:49:17 Ignored unknown/unexpected token 'REPEAT=60' at line
129


Can someone help me with the right syntax?


And my second question:

In the hobbit-clients.cfg is the folowing server:

HOST=venus
#       DISK /media/news 50 51
       DISK /media/news IGNORE
       PROC ssh
       PROC /usr/local/bin/smsd 2 2
       PROC cron
       PROC readserial 0 2

It must be clearly that the /media/news filesystem is of no importance.
Monitoring is nice for the graph, but I do not want a red disk if the
filesystem is full.
I tried IGNORE, 100 100 but nothing works.
Since this is one of the servers that is sending sms i want to tune this
parameter.

Does someone else has an idea?

Regards,

Gé Janssen

p.s. I upgraded last weekend to Xymon 4.23 from 4.20