hobbit-alerts.cfg and where's the needle 🔗 link

On Jan 3, 2011, at 4:39 PM, Steve Holmes wrote:

Is there any way to find out exactly where a recipient is being picked up to be alerted for a specific host? 

Is there any way to find out exactly where a recipient is being picked up to
be alerted for a specific host?
I.e. (on Xymon 4.2.3) I have 2 recipients for all tests on a pair of hosts
and there should be only one. They are windows application servers and both
the app admins and unix admins are getting the alerts. The info pages for
both hosts on that page show both groups as recipients. I've scoured the
hobbit-alerts.cfg file and I can NOT see any way the unix admin group should
be included as a recipient for either of the hosts on the page in question,
nor for either of the individual hosts.

What I'm looking for is a tool that will read the hobbit-alerts.cfg file and
take args like a host name and recipient, and return an explanation of how
the results are compiled, in particular, which config line or lines would
result in a specific recipient being included. I know this is highly
unlikely to exist, but I thought I'd ask anyway.

Thanks!
Steve
Purdue University/ITSO

On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 9:45 AM, Martha McConaghy <user-541f93250a4d@xymon.invalid> wrote:

Steve,

It sounds like you want the bbcmd to test the alerts file.  Its documented
in http:/.../xymon/help/hobbit-alerts.html.  It allows you to do a test
run through your hobbit-alerts.cfg file and find all the places that might
trigger an alert based on given criteria such as the hostname and test
(i.e. cpu, disk, etc.).  It can also test yellow alerts as well as red.
The hobbitd_alert man page also contains more detailed information.

./bin/bbcmd hobbitd_alert --test osiris.hswn.dk cpu


I have found this to be invaluable as our alerts file has grown.  Hope
it helps.

Martha McConaghy
Marist College


On Mon, 3 Jan 2011 16:39:20 -0500 Steve Holmes said:

Is there any way to find out exactly where a recipient is being picked up
to
be alerted for a specific host?
I.e. (on Xymon 4.2.3) I have 2 recipients for all tests on a pair of hosts
and there should be only one. They are windows application servers and
both
the app admins and unix admins are getting the alerts. The info pages for
both hosts on that page show both groups as recipients. I've scoured the
hobbit-alerts.cfg file and I can NOT see any way the unix admin group
should
be included as a recipient for either of the hosts on the page in
question,
nor for either of the individual hosts.

What I'm looking for is a tool that will read the hobbit-alerts.cfg file
and
take args like a host name and recipient, and return an explanation of how
the results are compiled, in particular, which config line or lines would
result in a specific recipient being included. I know this is highly
unlikely to exist, but I thought I'd ask anyway.

Thanks!
Steve
Purdue University/ITSO

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On 01/04/2011 10:06 AM, Steve Holmes wrote:

Thanks to Rob and Martha. Who would have thought that 'fprnts' would
match 'PRNT' ? Changing 'PRNT' in the regex to '^PRNT' fixed the
problem. I may anchor all of the expressions that way to prevent future
similar problems.

Thanks again,
Steve

On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 9:45 AM, Martha McConaghy <user-541f93250a4d@xymon.invalid
<mailto:user-541f93250a4d@xymon.invalid>> wrote:

    Steve,

    It sounds like you want the bbcmd to test the alerts file.  Its
    documented
    in http:/.../xymon/help/hobbit-alerts.html.  It allows you to do a test
    run through your hobbit-alerts.cfg file and find all the places that
    might
    trigger an alert based on given criteria such as the hostname and test
    (i.e. cpu, disk, etc.).  It can also test yellow alerts as well as red.
    The hobbitd_alert man page also contains more detailed information.

    ./bin/bbcmd hobbitd_alert --test osiris.hswn.dk

    I have found this to be invaluable as our alerts file has grown.  Hope
    it helps.

    Martha McConaghy
    Marist College


    On Mon, 3 Jan 2011 16:39:20 -0500 Steve Holmes said:

Is there any way to find out exactly where a recipient is being
    picked up to
be alerted for a specific host?
I.e. (on Xymon 4.2.3) I have 2 recipients for all tests on a pair
    of hosts
and there should be only one. They are windows application servers
    and both
the app admins and unix admins are getting the alerts. The info
    pages for
both hosts on that page show both groups as recipients. I've
    scoured the
hobbit-alerts.cfg file and I can NOT see any way the unix admin
    group should
be included as a recipient for either of the hosts on the page in
    question,
nor for either of the individual hosts.

What I'm looking for is a tool that will read the hobbit-alerts.cfg
    file and
take args like a host name and recipient, and return an explanation
    of how
the results are compiled, in particular, which config line or lines
    would
result in a specific recipient being included. I know this is highly
unlikely to exist, but I thought I'd ask anyway.

Thanks!
Steve
Purdue University/ITSO

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