hobbit-alerts.cfg - DURATION

I think you have the inequality backwards on your DURATION clause, as it is
written no alert will be issued for for alerts that are older than 3
minutes, probably should be DURATION>3, not DURATION<3.

Thanks,
Larry Barber

On 3/14/07, user-4d3800b5a33a@xymon.invalid <
user-4d3800b5a33a@xymon.invalid> wrote:

Hello,

thanks for ur reply.

user-ae3e15c22de1@xymon.invalid schrieb am 13.03.2007 16:53:25:

it should be counting the time from when the alert changes status
(so, green-to-yellow, yellow-to-red, etc)

thought so

Try using the bbcmd "hobbitd_alert" test below to see if it is
working as intended.  It can be used as below:
/var/hobbit/server/bin/bbcmd hobbitd_alert --test <hostname> <host test>

works in principle as expected, although there is no possibility to
reproduce my scenario using test utility

Also, you might want to consider using DURATION<3m (specifying "m"
for minutes).  I'm not sure what the default is, but I personally
prefer to be explicit; makes reading it a little easier as well.

from man pages: "The duration is specified as a number, _optionally_
followed by 'm' (minutes, default), 'h' (hours) or 'd' (days)."

--debug output of hobbitd_alert looks like:

(initial alert yellow)

2007-03-13 14:38:58 hobbitd_alert: Got message 1139

@@page#1139|1173793138.770212|xx.xx.xx.xx|myhost|disk|xx.xx.xx.xx|1173794938|yellow|green|1173793138|pct|643201|||
2007-03-13 14:38:58 startpos 2590, fillpos 2590, endpos -1
2007-03-13 14:38:58 Got page message from myhost:disk
2007-03-13 14:38:58 Alert status changed from 0 to 1
2007-03-13 14:38:58 Found a first matching rule
2007-03-13 14:38:58 No more secondary matching rule
2007-03-13 14:38:58 1 alerts to go
2007-03-13 14:38:58 Found a first matching rule
2007-03-13 14:38:58 send_alert myhost:disk state 0
2007-03-13 14:38:58 No more secondary matching rule
2007-03-13 14:38:58 Want msg 1140, startpos 2590, fillpos 2590, endpos -1,
usedbytes=0, bufleft=263649
2007-03-13 14:38:58 Found a first matching rule
2007-03-13 14:38:58   repeat myhost|disk|script|0123456789 at 0
2007-03-13 14:38:58   Alert for myhost:disk to 0123456789
2007-03-13 14:38:58 Opening file /opt/hobbit/server/etc/bb-hosts

(4min later red alert raises)

2007-03-13 14:42:49 hobbitd_alert: Got message 1223

@@page#1223|1173793369.998387|xx.xx.xx.xx|myhost|disk|xx.xx.xx.xx|1173795169|red|yellow|1173793369|pct|643201|||
2007-03-13 14:42:49 startpos 47243, fillpos 47243, endpos -1
2007-03-13 14:42:49 Got page message from myhost:disk
2007-03-13 14:42:49 Severity increased, cleared repeat interval:
myhost/disk yellow->red
2007-03-13 14:42:49 Found no first matching rule
2007-03-13 14:42:49 Want msg 1224, startpos 47243, fillpos 47243, endpos
-1, usedbytes=0, bufleft=218996

so hm. i am not sure i got any lines of interest, but this looks not very
helpfull.

Chears,
Anatoli

Dear Hobbits,

is DURATION keyword within hobbit-alerts.cfg relates to the time period
one test is in a special state, yellow or red, or more general the time
period since non-green state occurs. In example, i want to get exact one
notification at yellow state and one at red, but the following
configuration does not work. I get notified on initial yellow alert, but
not on red one occurring 4 min later.

HOST=myhost SERVICE=disk COLOR=yellow DURATION<3
SCRIPT $SSMSS $ABSMS REPEAT=5 RECOVERED

HOST=myhost SERVICE=disk COLOR=red DURATION<3
SCRIPT $SSMSS $ABSMS REPEAT=5 RECOVERED

Any ideas? Thanks :-)

Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Yours sincerely

Anatoli Bogajewski