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list Kevin Grady · Thu, 24 Feb 2005 16:06:54 -0500 ·
Is their functionality in hobbit to do alert escalation? I read
through the man page and nothing jumps out as a method to do this. I
ask because we have a small 4 man rotation of oncall personal and I'd
like to setup all alerts to go the primary oncall contact and if no
acknowledgement has been made in X amount of time, send out an alert
to the group. That way everyone keeps their pagers on, but only the
primary receives the first alert. Any assistance is appreciated.

Thanks
list Tom Georgoulias · Thu, 24 Feb 2005 16:21:47 -0500 ·
quoted from Kevin Grady
kevin grady wrote:
Is their functionality in hobbit to do alert escalation? I read
through the man page and nothing jumps out as a method to do this. I
ask because we have a small 4 man rotation of oncall personal and I'd
like to setup all alerts to go the primary oncall contact and if no
acknowledgement has been made in X amount of time, send out an alert
to the group. That way everyone keeps their pagers on, but only the
primary receives the first alert. Any assistance is appreciated.
Something like this may get you started.  I'm not using the 
acknowledgement feature that others have discussed so I'd hate to give 
you bad advice.

HOST=$HOSTGROUP SERVICE=cpu
MAIL user-d4bac53b98cf@xymon.invalid COLOR=red
MAIL user-5668b143c268@xymon.invalid COLOR=red DURATION>4h

For any host in the host group, if the CPU alerts red, the oncall guy is 
notified.  If it is still red after 4 hours, everyone else is alerted.

Tom
list Henrik Størner · Thu, 24 Feb 2005 22:31:16 +0100 ·
quoted from Kevin Grady
On Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 04:06:54PM -0500, kevin grady wrote:
Is their functionality in hobbit to do alert escalation? I read
through the man page and nothing jumps out as a method to do this.
It was mentioned a few days ago - Feb 14 - when Brent McCrackin
also asked for it.

You can do part of it with the "duration" settings. But the one thing
that Hobbit cannot do right now is the BB way of escalating alerts;
right now, if someone ack's an alert, it turns off alerts for all
recipients. BB continues to send alerts to those recipients that are
marked for escalation.
quoted from Tom Georgoulias
ask because we have a small 4 man rotation of oncall personal and I'd
like to setup all alerts to go the primary oncall contact and if no
acknowledgement has been made in X amount of time, send out an alert
to the group. That way everyone keeps their pagers on, but only the
primary receives the first alert. Any assistance is appreciated.
That should be possible with the DURATION settings. I see Tom has
already provided some examples :-)


Henrik
list Kevin Grady · Thu, 24 Feb 2005 16:33:10 -0500 ·
Yep. Didn't read enough. Thanks guys
quoted from Henrik Størner


On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 22:31:16 +0100, Henrik Stoerner <user-ce4a2c883f75@xymon.invalid> wrote:
On Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 04:06:54PM -0500, kevin grady wrote:
Is their functionality in hobbit to do alert escalation? I read
through the man page and nothing jumps out as a method to do this.
It was mentioned a few days ago - Feb 14 - when Brent McCrackin
also asked for it.

You can do part of it with the "duration" settings. But the one thing
that Hobbit cannot do right now is the BB way of escalating alerts;
right now, if someone ack's an alert, it turns off alerts for all
recipients. BB continues to send alerts to those recipients that are
marked for escalation.
ask because we have a small 4 man rotation of oncall personal and I'd
like to setup all alerts to go the primary oncall contact and if no
acknowledgement has been made in X amount of time, send out an alert
to the group. That way everyone keeps their pagers on, but only the
primary receives the first alert. Any assistance is appreciated.
That should be possible with the DURATION settings. I see Tom has
already provided some examples :-)


Henrik