Downtime Alerting #2
list Oliver Grube
Hello Hobbits, my last post was perhaps simply overseen, because I can't believe, that nobody knows something about my question. Or did I miss a chapter in the Manual? By using the "info" Column you can easily disable a System for a planned downtime. However, I would like to inform a group a people about this automatically by sending an eMail directly, when the Downtime is scheduled. Is there a way to do so? And is there a general way, to change the Look & Text of an Alert eMail? mit freundlichen Grüßen - Best regards Met vriendelijke groeten - Sincères salutations, Oliver Grube EU Security&Controls Manager Campbell's Germany Geninerstr. 88-100 23560 Luebeck Tel.: +XX XXX/ XXXX-XXX Fax: +XX XXX/ XXXX-XXX ********************************************************************** This e-mail and any files transmitted with it may contain confidential information and is intended solely for use by the individual to whom it is addressed. If you received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender, do not disclose its contents to others and delete it from your system. **********************************************************************
list Rich Smrcina
You can try to use the keyword COLOR in hobbit-alerts.cfg for that host to match for BLUE, but you may also need to change hobbitserver.cfg (I think) to tell it that BLUE can be an alert-able condition (normally it is not).
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user-f10fe95e937b@xymon.invalid wrote:Hello Hobbits, my last post was perhaps simply overseen, because I can't believe, that nobody knows something about my question. Or did I miss a chapter in the Manual? By using the "info" Column you can easily disable a System for a planned downtime. However, I would like to inform a group a people about this automatically by sending an eMail directly, when the Downtime is scheduled. Is there a way to do so? And is there a general way, to change the Look & Text of an Alert eMail? mit freundlichen Grüßen - Best regards Met vriendelijke groeten - Sincères salutations, Oliver Grube EU Security&Controls Manager Campbell's Germany Geninerstr. 88-100 23560 Luebeck Tel.: +XX XXX/ XXXX-XXX Fax: +XX XXX/ XXXX-XXX ********************************************************************** This e-mail and any files transmitted with it may contain confidential information and is intended solely for use by the individual to whom it is addressed. If you received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender, do not disclose its contents to others and delete it from your system. **********************************************************************
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list Greg L Hubbard
You could look at the source, and you would realize that the answer to your first question is "no" and that the answer to the second question is "not unless you write a script to create and send the email yourself and call it for the alarms that you want to send email for..."
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From: user-f10fe95e937b@xymon.invalid [mailto:user-f10fe95e937b@xymon.invalid]
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To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: [hobbit] Downtime Alerting #2
Hello Hobbits,
my last post was perhaps simply overseen, because I can't believe, that nobody knows something about my question. Or did I miss a chapter in the Manual?
By using the "info" Column you can easily disable a System for a planned downtime. However, I would like to inform a group a people about this automatically by sending an eMail directly, when the Downtime is scheduled.
Is there a way to do so?
And is there a general way, to change the Look & Text of an Alert eMail?
mit freundlichen Grüßen - Best regards
Met vriendelijke groeten - Sincères salutations,
Oliver Grube
EU Security&Controls Manager
Campbell's Germany
Geninerstr. 88-100
23560 Luebeck
Tel.: +XX XXX/ XXXX-XXX
Fax: +XX XXX/ XXXX-XXX
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list Oliver Grube
Greg, thanks for the answer. I'm not deep inside C Code, therefore,may I ask an additional question? Do you see any possible ways, to enhance the code to allow a Downtime alerting? I'm thinking about something like "DTALERT=email1,email2" added to the objects in the bb-hosts file and whenever a downtime is scheduled, hobbit-enadis.cgi could perhaps trigger this to the alert? With BigBrother, I did a lot of minor code changes and at the end, this results in the situation, that I never update the software itself, because I don't know, how to re-apply my changes. I have no experience with patching and version-control and more than scripting is also not my cup of tea. My concern is, if I do "private" changes to hobbit, I run in the same situation...
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mit freundlichen Grüßen - Best regards
Met vriendelijke groeten - Sincères salutations,
Oliver Grube
greg.hubbard at eds.
com
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You could look at the source, and you would realize that the answer to your
first question is "no" and that the answer to the second question is "not
unless you write a script to create and send the email yourself and call it
for the alarms that you want to send email for..."
-----Original Message-----
From: user-f10fe95e937b@xymon.invalid [mailto:user-f10fe95e937b@xymon.invalid]
Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2007 8:05 AM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: [hobbit] Downtime Alerting #2
Hello Hobbits,
my last post was perhaps simply overseen, because I can't believe, that
nobody knows something about my question. Or did I miss a chapter in the
Manual?
By using the "info" Column you can easily disable a System for a planned
downtime. However, I would like to inform a group a people about this
automatically by sending an eMail directly, when the Downtime is scheduled.
Is there a way to do so?
And is there a general way, to change the Look & Text of an Alert eMail?
mit freundlichen Grüßen - Best regards
Met vriendelijke groeten - Sincères salutations,
Oliver Grube
EU Security&Controls Manager
Campbell's Germany
Geninerstr. 88-100
23560 Luebeck
Tel.: +XX XXX/ XXXX-XXX
Fax: +XX XXX/ XXXX-XXX
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list Greg L Hubbard
Someone would have to write that. Your idea may be sound, but Henrik still "owns" the overall architecture. He is planning a big new release one of these days, and maybe you can see if he will add this to the wish list. GLH
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Subject: RE: [hobbit] Downtime Alerting #2
Greg,
thanks for the answer.
I'm not deep inside C Code, therefore,may I ask an additional question?
Do you see any possible ways, to enhance the code to allow a Downtime alerting?
I'm thinking about something like "DTALERT=email1,email2" added to the objects in the bb-hosts file and whenever a downtime is scheduled, hobbit-enadis.cgi could perhaps trigger this to the alert?
With BigBrother, I did a lot of minor code changes and at the end, this results in the situation, that I never update the software itself, because I don't know, how to re-apply my changes. I have no experience with patching and version-control and more than scripting is also not my cup of tea. My concern is, if I do "private" changes to hobbit, I run in the same situation...
mit freundlichen Grüßen - Best regards
Met vriendelijke groeten - Sincères salutations,
Oliver Grube
greg.hubbard at eds.
com
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2007-04-24 16:12 user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
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Please respond to Subject
user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid RE: [hobbit] Downtime Alerting #2
You could look at the source, and you would realize that the answer to your first question is "no" and that the answer to the second question is "not unless you write a script to create and send the email yourself and call it for the alarms that you want to send email for..."
-----Original Message-----
From: user-f10fe95e937b@xymon.invalid [mailto:user-f10fe95e937b@xymon.invalid]
Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2007 8:05 AM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: [hobbit] Downtime Alerting #2
Hello Hobbits,
my last post was perhaps simply overseen, because I can't believe, that nobody knows something about my question. Or did I miss a chapter in the Manual?
By using the "info" Column you can easily disable a System for a planned downtime. However, I would like to inform a group a people about this automatically by sending an eMail directly, when the Downtime is scheduled.
Is there a way to do so?
And is there a general way, to change the Look & Text of an Alert eMail?
mit freundlichen Grüßen - Best regards
Met vriendelijke groeten - Sincères salutations,
Oliver Grube
EU Security&Controls Manager
Campbell's Germany
Geninerstr. 88-100
23560 Luebeck
Tel.: +XX XXX/ XXXX-XXX
Fax: +XX XXX/ XXXX-XXX
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list Greg Shea
Hi Oliver, Maybe I don't understand fully but can't you use the NOTICE rule in the hobbit-alerts.cfg file to send an email? I've seen this thread http://www.hswn.dk/hobbiton/2005/03/msg00282.html Again if I'm off-base let me know -Grs- Gregory R Shea EMC Corporation
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-----Original Message-----
From: user-f10fe95e937b@xymon.invalid [mailto:user-f10fe95e937b@xymon.invalid]
Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2007 9:05 AM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: [hobbit] Downtime Alerting #2
Hello Hobbits,
my last post was perhaps simply overseen, because I can't believe, that
nobody knows something about my question. Or did I miss a chapter in the
Manual?
By using the "info" Column you can easily disable a System for a planned
downtime. However, I would like to inform a group a people about this
automatically by sending an eMail directly, when the Downtime is scheduled.
Is there a way to do so?
And is there a general way, to change the Look & Text of an Alert eMail?
mit freundlichen Grüßen - Best regards
Met vriendelijke groeten - Sincères salutations,
Oliver Grube
EU Security&Controls Manager
Campbell's Germany
Geninerstr. 88-100
23560 Luebeck
Tel.: +XX XXX/ XXXX-XXX
Fax: +XX XXX/ XXXX-XXX
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list Geoff Hallford
I could be wrong as well but I am using NOTICE and it doesn't seem to trigger for a 'scheduled' disable. It only triggers if the enable/disable is scheduled for 'now'. It would definitely be helpful if it did though.
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On 4/24/07, user-762ee872a5a4@xymon.invalid <user-762ee872a5a4@xymon.invalid> wrote:Hi Oliver, Maybe I don't understand fully but can't you use the NOTICE rule in the hobbit-alerts.cfg file to send an email? I've seen this thread http://www.hswn.dk/hobbiton/2005/03/msg00282.html Again if I'm off-base let me know -Grs- Gregory R Shea EMC Corporation -----Original Message----- From: user-f10fe95e937b@xymon.invalid [mailto:user-f10fe95e937b@xymon.invalid] Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2007 9:05 AM To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid Subject: [hobbit] Downtime Alerting #2 Hello Hobbits, my last post was perhaps simply overseen, because I can't believe, that nobody knows something about my question. Or did I miss a chapter in the Manual? By using the "info" Column you can easily disable a System for a planned downtime. However, I would like to inform a group a people about this automatically by sending an eMail directly, when the Downtime is scheduled. Is there a way to do so? And is there a general way, to change the Look & Text of an Alert eMail? mit freundlichen Grüßen - Best regards Met vriendelijke groeten - Sincères salutations, Oliver Grube EU Security&Controls Manager Campbell's Germany Geninerstr. 88-100 23560 Luebeck Tel.: +XX XXX/ XXXX-XXX Fax: +XX XXX/ XXXX-XXX ********************************************************************** This e-mail and any files transmitted with it may contain confidential information and is intended solely for use by the individual to whom it is addressed. If you received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender, do not disclose its contents to others and delete it from your system. **********************************************************************
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list Oliver Grube
Hello, I would like to implement Downtime alerting when a downtime is scheduled. In our environment, we are working on an European level together. Therefore, for some devices, we need to inform colleagues and third party connections about a planned downtime. EG. if a VPN Router will not be available for a while... I'm thinking about an EXT Script to do downtime alerting right when the planned downtime is scheduled. It's like: - Check scheduled Task list for entries - Check internal file, if already informed - Run against each entry in Task list, if not already informed - Send eMail to receipt following alerting rules looking for "NOTICE" and "NOALERT" - Cleanup internal file for not valid entries (comparing the scheduled Task list) - If a not valid entry with date in future exists, send Alert to inform about cancelled downtime - Delete not valid entry - Add new informed device and planned Downtime to internal file - Exit For a perl/bash scripting guy, this will be an easy task, however, I've written my last perl Script in 2003... :-(, because most devices running MS and I script more VBScripts... Has anybody any hint for me?
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mit freundlichen Grüßen - Best regards
Met vriendelijke groeten - Sincères salutations,
Oliver Grube
geoff.hallford at gm
ail.com
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cc Please respond to Subject user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid Re: [hobbit] Downtime Alerting #2 I could be wrong as well but I am using NOTICE and it doesn't seem to trigger for a 'scheduled' disable. It only triggers if the enable/disable is scheduled for 'now'. It would definitely be helpful if it did though. On 4/24/07, user-762ee872a5a4@xymon.invalid <user-762ee872a5a4@xymon.invalid> wrote: Hi Oliver, Maybe I don't understand fully but can't you use the NOTICE rule in the hobbit-alerts.cfg file to send an email? I've seen this thread http://www.hswn.dk/hobbiton/2005/03/msg00282.html Again if I'm off-base let me know -Grs- Gregory R Shea EMC Corporation -----Original Message-----
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Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2007 9:05 AM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: [hobbit] Downtime Alerting #2
Hello Hobbits,
my last post was perhaps simply overseen, because I can't believe,
that
nobody knows something about my question. Or did I miss a chapter in
the
Manual?
By using the "info" Column you can easily disable a System for a
planned
downtime. However, I would like to inform a group a people about this
automatically by sending an eMail directly, when the Downtime is
scheduled.
Is there a way to do so?
And is there a general way, to change the Look & Text of an Alert
eMail?
mit freundlichen Grüßen - Best regards
Met vriendelijke groeten - Sincères salutations,
Oliver Grube
EU Security&Controls Manager
Campbell's Germany
Geninerstr. 88-100
23560 Luebeck
Tel.: +XX XXX/ XXXX-XXX
Fax: +XX XXX/ XXXX-XXX
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the individual to whom it is addressed. If you received
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