RE: [hobbit] only alert if X number of hosts are already in error

["Bruce Lysik" <blysik (at) shutterfly.com>]

> My best suggestion would be to use the bbcombotest tool to define
> a pseudo "host" with the combined status of your host "pool".
> 
> E.g. if you're monitoring http on 5 hosts, you could define a
> combination test like this:
> 
> Pool1.http=(hostA.http+hostB.http+hostC.http+hostD.http+hostE.http)>3
> 
> That would give you a red alert if 3 or fewer hosts in the pool were
> green. And you could then trigger an alert based on that test result.

Pretty unwieldy when you have large pools of servers, however.  

I just started writing a smart paging script which will keep track of downed hosts and decide whether or not to page.  

One question I have so far is: Does hobbit wait for an alerting script to return before continuing to evaluate other rules?  

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Bruce Z. Lysik  <blysik (at) shutterfly.com>
Operations Engineer 


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