Load threasholds when bbwin in 'central' mode
list Craig Whilding
I decided to try out 4.3 beta 2 along with the central mode for 'bbwin' clients. Unfortunately when doing this I discovered many of the windows boxes were alerting red because the load was higher than my defaults of 4 and 8... Now I've upped these to 95 and 100 to represent the percentage the windows boxes are using but this means the unix boxes could be broken and I wont know without setting individual alert thresholds. Is there a way to change the windows 'load' to be 'load percentage' or something so each type of box is using a different monitoring type? I know there were discussions about having UNIX boxes sending in a load percentage but that this was a difficult thing to achieve correctly. Our hostnames are normally dictated by service rather than platform unfortunately so I can't always just put so8/w2k etc pcre expressions in the thresholds to differentiate OS type. Regards, Craig Whilding
list Iain M Conochie
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Whilding, Craig wrote:
<snip> Is there a way to change the windows 'load' to be 'load percentage' or something so each type of box is using a different monitoring type? I know there were discussions about having UNIX boxes sending in a load percentage but that this was a difficult thing to achieve correctly. Our hostnames are normally dictated by service rather than platform unfortunately so I can't always just put so8/w2k etc pcre expressions in the thresholds to differentiate OS type.
Do you have the windows servers on a different page to the UNIX / linux ones? You can use the PAGE statement for that. You may also be able to use it based on client but personally i have not used it Cheers Iain
Regards, Craig Whilding
list John Thorton
I don't use this setting myself, but BBWin.cfg has a configclass entry that defaults to "win32". You can use CLASS variables in hobbit-clients on the server to apply rules to clients based on that value. If win32 is too generic you can change it to, for example, win32_XXX.
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On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 9:21 AM, Iain M Conochie <user-c784e16a5170@xymon.invalid> wrote:
Whilding, Craig wrote:<snip> Is there a way to change the windows 'load' to be 'load percentage' or something so each type of box is using a different monitoring type? I know there were discussions about having UNIX boxes sending in a load percentage but that this was a difficult thing to achieve correctly. Our hostnames are normally dictated by service rather than platform unfortunately so I can't always just put so8/w2k etc pcre expressions in the thresholds to differentiate OS type.Do you have the windows servers on a different page to the UNIX / linux ones? You can use the PAGE statement for that. You may also be able to use it based on client but personally i have not used it Cheers IainRegards, Craig Whilding
list Craig Whilding
These weren't on separate pages per OS. I hadn't seen the CLASS values you can base rules on. Works great though as I can put the defaults back down for UNIX and set high windows class ones based on the percentage. Thanks, Craig
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From: John Thorton [mailto:user-0309652f10a2@xymon.invalid]
Sent: 29 September 2009 15:51
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: Re: [hobbit] Load threasholds when bbwin in 'central' mode
I don't use this setting myself, but BBWin.cfg has a configclass entry
that defaults to "win32". You can use CLASS variables in hobbit-clients
on the server to apply rules to clients based on that value. If win32 is
too generic you can change it to, for example, win32_XXX.
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 9:21 AM, Iain M Conochie <user-c784e16a5170@xymon.invalid>
wrote:
Whilding, Craig wrote:
<snip>
Is there a way to change the windows 'load' to be 'load percentage' or
something so each type of box is using a different monitoring type? I
know there were discussions about having UNIX boxes sending in a load
percentage but that this was a difficult thing to achieve correctly.
Our hostnames are normally dictated by service rather than platform
unfortunately so I can't always just put so8/w2k etc pcre expressions in
the thresholds to differentiate OS type.
Do you have the windows servers on a different page to the UNIX / linux
ones? You can use the PAGE statement for that.
You may also be able to use it based on client but personally i have not
used it
Cheers
Iain
Regards,
Craig Whilding