Disk space alerts
list James B Horwath
Does hobbit allow you to send disk space alerts to different people. For example if I have a data base machine, the sys admins would get the O/S type alerts, the DBA's get the database filesystem alerts, and the WEB developers would get the WEB filesystem alerts. This was always my big wish list from BB. Thanks in advance, Jim Jim Horwath SANS Certified: GCUX/GHTQ Unix Admin This message, and any attachments to it, may contain information that is privileged, confidential, and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are notified that any use, dissemination, distribution, copying, or communication of this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete the message and any attachments. Thank you.
list Henrik Størner
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On Fri, Feb 18, 2005 at 01:40:31PM -0500, James B Horwath wrote:
Does hobbit allow you to send disk space alerts to different people. For example if I have a data base machine, the sys admins would get the O/S type alerts, the DBA's get the database filesystem alerts, and the WEB developers would get the WEB filesystem alerts. This was always my big wish list from BB.
In the current version, Hobbit behaves like BB in that respect. I have some ideas and the beginnings of some code that would allow you to do this, by filtering status-messages on the Hobbit server before they are processed by the normal daemon. My idea was that since the RRD graph module is already parsing a lot of the data, it wouldn't be terribly difficult to match the data fed into the RRD files against some thresholds, and trigger an alert e.g. if utilisation of a single disk goes above some threshold. Henrik
list Barbara Hale
James - There is a bb-disk_by_fs.sh on www.deadcat.com which can replace the bb-disk.sh in the Big Brother client. I took that as a starting point and made some modifications for our shop. It has been a godsend since we had the same problem. If you want my version so you can compare to the deadcat one I would be happy to send it to you. Barbara
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Subject: Re: [hobbit] Disk space alerts
On Fri, Feb 18, 2005 at 01:40:31PM -0500, James B Horwath wrote:Does hobbit allow you to send disk space alerts to different people.
For
example if I have a data base machine, the sys admins would get the
O/S
type alerts, the DBA's get the database filesystem alerts, and the WEB
developers would get the WEB filesystem alerts. This was always my big wish list from BB.
In the current version, Hobbit behaves like BB in that respect. I have some ideas and the beginnings of some code that would allow you to do this, by filtering status-messages on the Hobbit server before they are processed by the normal daemon. My idea was that since the RRD graph module is already parsing a lot of the data, it wouldn't be terribly difficult to match the data fed into the RRD files against some thresholds, and trigger an alert e.g. if utilisation of a single disk goes above some threshold. Henrik
list Craig Cook
Yet another way to deal with multiple file systems... Pull the data out of the rrd files, then take action based on what you find. This will involve disk reads though, so it would slow hobbit down. The latest beta of RRD has some interesting predictive failure features in it. Look for info on Holt-Winters and RRD 1.1.x Craig Cook -- Big Brother Consulting and Training Services www.cookitservices.com