[hobbit] Alert test feature

Allan allan at zandahar.net
Thu May 26 08:32:39 CEST 2005


Henrik Stoerner wrote:

>On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 11:25:12AM +1000, Allan wrote:
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>>Just wondering if its possible to implement a time= param on the on the 
>>hobbitd_alert --test command. Its really wicked to be able to check your 
>>rules and see what they're going to do but it would be even better if 
>>you could simulate a time as well. An extension to that would be 
>>possibly to have a duration tag to ensure your duration settings in the 
>>alerts.cfg file are all ood.
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>Currently, you can set anything but the time of day.
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>$ bbcmd hobbitd_alert --test
>2005-05-26 08:18:17 Using default environment file /usr/lib/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitserver.cfg
>Usage: hobbitd_alert --test HOST SERVICE [PAGE [duration [color]]]
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>I'm about to remove the "PAGE" parameter, since it is now 
>automatically detected from the bb-hosts file.
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>I'll see if I can get a time-parameter in there. It's not difficult,
>it's just a lot of places that need changing to use a custom routine
>to get the current system time, instead of the normal one.
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>Henrik
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Ahh ok I dont remember seeing that before but coolies :)

Allan



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