[hobbit] Testing Hobbit alerts

[Ward, Martin]

> Always use the "bbcmd" utility to setup the environment for 
> ...
> So your command should be
>    bbcmd hobbitd_alert --test tac0.lon.ws.colt.net proc             
> 

Thanks Henrik, with that command I get:
00014153 2008-06-25 14:49:28 Matching host:service:page
'tac0.lon.ws.colt.net:proc:Netops' against rule line 128
00014153 2008-06-25 14:49:28 *** Match with 'HOST=tac0.lon.ws.colt.net'
***
00014153 2008-06-25 14:49:28 Matching host:service:page
'tac0.lon.ws.colt.net:proc:Netops' against rule line 128
00014153 2008-06-25 14:49:28 *** Match with 'HOST=tac0.lon.ws.colt.net'
***
00014153 2008-06-25 14:49:28 Mail alert with command '/bin/mailx -s
"Hobbit [12345] tac0.lon.ws.colt.net:proc CRITICAL (RED)"
martin.ward at colt.net'

And I can confirm that running the mailx command specified DOES send an
email, so the mail system itself is working correctly.

Unfortunately Hobbit itself is not generating anything. My
hobbit-alerts.cfg file looks like this:

HOST=tac0.lon.ws.colt.net
     MAIL martin.ward at colt.net repeat=5m

So any alert should email me. I have a simple test set up so that if I
am not editing a specific file a process in not found and the "procs"
column goes red, but no emails are forthcoming. I've even tried changing
the "mailx" command to a simple script that logs whatever is output from
Hobbit to a log file, but nothing comes out. It looks like the alerting
functionality is not working or has been disabled somehow, but that
makes no sense.

Can you give me some more pointers as to where to look?

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] 
> Sent: 24 June 2008 22:39
> To: hobbit at hswn.dk
> Subject: Re: [hobbit] Testing Hobbit alerts
> 
> 
> On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 04:22:05PM +0100, Ward, Martin wrote:
> > Also, in my hobbitserver.cfg I have this:
> > MAILC="/bin/mailx"
> > MAIL="$MAILC -s"
> > 
> > So the theory goes that when an alert occurs the /bin/mailx 
> command is 
> > executed with various different parameters.
> > 
> > The problem is, when I try and test it I get the following:
> > 
> > hobbit at hbt0:/opt/hobbit/server/etc>hobbitd_alert --test 
> tac0.lon.ws.colt.net proc             
> 
> Always use the "bbcmd" utility to setup the environment for 
> your tests. That's the only way you can make sure 
> hobbitd_alert inherits the settings from your 
> hobbitserver.cfg - if you don't use bbcmd, then it will use 
> the built-in (compile-time) defaults.
> 
> So your command should be
>    bbcmd hobbitd_alert --test tac0.lon.ws.colt.net proc             
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Henrik
> 
> 
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