Alert Escalation 🔗 link

I'm trying to set up an alert so that it goes to a specific user after
10 minutes.  If not acknowledged in 10 minutes, I want it to go to a
second user.  If he/she doesn't acknowledge it in another 10 minutes, I
want to alert the first user again, and repeat in this fashion until
it's acknowledged (or fixed).  So, "user 1" would get the alert after 10
minutes, 30 minutes, 50 minutes, etc. and "user 2" after 20 minutes, 40
minutes, 60 minutes, etc.  For testing, I have the alert defined like:

HOST=testhost.syr.edu RECOVERED
     MAIL user-b4e299ec46f5@xymon.invalid FORMAT=TEXT DURATION>10 REPEAT=20
     MAIL user-513d0343e7bf@xymon.invalid FORMAT=SMS DURATION>20 REPEAT=20

What happens is the first alert (FORMAT=TEXT) goes out at 10 minutes,
nothing at 20 minutes, both at 30 miuntes, nothing at 40 minutes, both
at 50 minutes, and so on.  I obviously don't understand how REPEAT
works.

What's the proper way to accomplish this?

Thanks,

Peter Murray
Computing and Media Services
Syracuse University
Syracuse NY 13244
<user-2f8a5f2ec641@xymon.invalid>

Hi,

I am trying to get larrd to graph external data from a script and I think I
have
everything setup but there doesn't appear to be any data going into the rrd
files.
The logs seem fine and there are no error messages etc that seem to help.
The graphs 
are on the page but just not getting data into them.

Can someone give me a pointer of how to check the data source etc or what I
should
Check and look at ?

I haven't added the scripts to the larrddata as my BB messages use status.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Ger.


hobbitlaunch.cfg entries

[larrdstatus]
        ENVFILE /usr/lib/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitserver.cfg
        NEEDS hobbitd
        CMD hobbitd_channel --channel=status
--log=$BBSERVERLOGS/larrd-status.lo
g hobbitd_larrd --rrddir=$BBVAR/rrd
--extra-script=/usr/lib/hobbit/server/ext/la
rrd-ext.sh --extra-tests=clients

[clients]
        ENVFILE /usr/lib/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitserver.cfg
        NEEDS hobbitd
        CMD $BBHOME/ext/clients.sh
        LOGFILE $BBSERVERLOGS/clients.log
        INTERVAL 5m


RRD script larrd-ext.sh
The script is generating data as when I uncomment the echo commands I get
the following data into the tmp file.

/usr/lib/hobbit/server/tmp/rrd_msg_13208
clients
kbwan3
19

19 is the output that the rrd files should be receiving and graphing.


#!/bin/sh

# Input parameters: Hostname, testname (column), and messagefile
HOSTNAME="$1"
TESTNAME="$2"
FNAME="$3"

#echo "$FNAME" > /tmp/hobbit.$HOSTNAME
#echo "$TESTNAME" >> /tmp/hobbit.$HOSTNAME
#echo "$HOSTNAME" >> /tmp/hobbit.$HOSTNAME

if [ "$TESTNAME" = "clients" ]
then
        # Analyze the message we got
        CLIENTS=`grep "connected" $FNAME | awk '{print $14}'`

        # The RRD dataset definitions
        echo "DS:clients:GAUGE:300:0:U"

        # The filename
        echo "clients.rrd"

        # The data
        echo "$CLIENTS"
#       echo "$CLIENTS"  >> /tmp/hobbit.$HOSTNAME
fi

exit 0

On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 08:16:56AM -0400, Peter Murray wrote:

Confirmed that this is a bug in all current Hobbit versions. It will be
fixed in 4.1.2 - you can pick up the latest snapshot for a working 
version.


Henrik