hobbit alerting on PAGE in dispinclude file 🔗 link

I have what I call "personal pages" for my co-workers that I
have set up in a dispinclude file.  It would be very simple
to set up alerts for those people using the PAGE matching
their personal pages, but in the version of Hobbit I'm using
(4.1.2), alerting doesn't seem to work on the pages that are
in a dispincluded file.  Should they? Do they in later
versions?

Tracy J. Di Marco White
Information Technology Services
Iowa State University

I also set up something similar to what you did; we call them 'admin
pages' or 'admin views.' In them, we mostly work with 'dispinclude' as
it could lead to inconsistent configurations in cases where one
monitored host is mentioned multiple times in different 'hosts.cfg' files.

My goal was to set up alert notifications based on
'PAGE=admiviews/user-a' in 'alerts.cfg,' but this does not work. My
guess is that 'dispinclude' is indeed not designed to trigger alerts.
Unfortunately, it would really come in handy in that case...