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list Joe Sloan · Wed, 14 Nov 2007 16:52:46 -0800 · 
Hello,

I've installed hobbit 4.2.0 and I'm gradually building up a shadow
hobbit environment here, adding tests and tweaking settings to come as
close as possible to the behavior of our current big brother monitors.

One behavior which I didn't expect is that I'm getting alerted for
yellow conditions. I've edited hobbitserver.cfg such that the relevant
lines now look like this:

#ALERTCOLORS="red,yellow,purple"        # Colors that may trigger an
alert message
ALERTCOLORS="red,purple"                # Colors that may trigger an
alert message

Then reloaded hobbit without effect, then tried restarting it, but no
joy - I'm still getting alerted about yellow conditions. How can I make
hobbit perform as expected in this regard?

Joe
list Bruce White · Thu, 15 Nov 2007 10:30:17 -0600 · 
Joe,

What have you done to your hobbit-alerts.cfg?   You should able to pick and
chose which items you want alerts when yellow and which you want alerts when
red by editing this file.

      .....Bruce
▸ quoted from Joe Sloan
 

-----Original Message-----
From: Sloan [mailto:user-b1d2c84d244b@xymon.invalid] 
Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2007 6:53 PM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: [hobbit] alerts problem

Hello,

I've installed hobbit 4.2.0 and I'm gradually building up a shadow hobbit
environment here, adding tests and tweaking settings to come as close as
possible to the behavior of our current big brother monitors.

One behavior which I didn't expect is that I'm getting alerted for yellow
conditions. I've edited hobbitserver.cfg such that the relevant lines now
look like this:

#ALERTCOLORS="red,yellow,purple"        # Colors that may trigger an
alert message
ALERTCOLORS="red,purple"                # Colors that may trigger an
alert message

Then reloaded hobbit without effect, then tried restarting it, but no joy -
I'm still getting alerted about yellow conditions. How can I make hobbit
perform as expected in this regard?

Joe



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list Joe Sloan · Thu, 15 Nov 2007 09:59:46 -0800 · 
I haven't listed any color parameters in hobbit-alerts.cfg, because I
wish to allow the ALERTCOLORS setting in hobbitserver.cfg to apply
universally, no exceptions needed. Are you saying that it is required to
add a color setting to every single alert definition? If so, what is the
purpose of the ALERTCOLORS setting in hobbitserver.cfg?

Confused,

Joe
▸ quoted from Bruce White

White, Bruce wrote:
Joe,

What have you done to your hobbit-alerts.cfg?   You should able to pick and
chose which items you want alerts when yellow and which you want alerts when
red by editing this file.

      .....Bruce
 

-----Original Message-----
From: Sloan [mailto:user-b1d2c84d244b@xymon.invalid] 
Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2007 6:53 PM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: [hobbit] alerts problem

Hello,

I've installed hobbit 4.2.0 and I'm gradually building up a shadow hobbit
environment here, adding tests and tweaking settings to come as close as
possible to the behavior of our current big brother monitors.

One behavior which I didn't expect is that I'm getting alerted for yellow
conditions. I've edited hobbitserver.cfg such that the relevant lines now
look like this:

#ALERTCOLORS="red,yellow,purple"        # Colors that may trigger an
alert message
ALERTCOLORS="red,purple"                # Colors that may trigger an
alert message

Then reloaded hobbit without effect, then tried restarting it, but no joy -
I'm still getting alerted about yellow conditions. How can I make hobbit
perform as expected in this regard?

Joe


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list Joe Sloan · Thu, 15 Nov 2007 11:50:14 -0800 · 
Inexplicably, the alerts have stopped coming for yellow conditions. The
thing that threw me was the fact that, after I edited ALERTCOLORS and
restarted hobbit, it still sent out one or two additional alerts for a
yellow condition. Is there some sort of alert "pipeline" that had to
empty out?

Joe
▸ quoted from Joe Sloan

Sloan wrote:
One behavior which I didn't expect is that I'm getting alerted for
yellow conditions. I've edited hobbitserver.cfg such that the relevant
lines now look like this:

#ALERTCOLORS="red,yellow,purple"        # Colors that may trigger an
alert message
ALERTCOLORS="red,purple"                # Colors that may trigger an
alert message

Then reloaded hobbit without effect, then tried restarting it, but no
joy - I'm still getting alerted about yellow conditions. How can I make
hobbit perform as expected in this regard?