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Re: [hobbit] how to comment on an alert event when test already recovers?
Hi Jerry,
I know it's perhaps not quite what you're after, but your e-mail
intrigued me, and I wondered if you've considered using a Wiki or an
issue tracker for such things?
It's not going to be as integrated as I see you suggesting, but there
is the unix philosophy of 'do one thing, and do it well', and Hobbit
starting to track issues/resolutions pushes it out of monitoring
(which it does so well) quite a bit.
Alternatively, you might want to take a look at RT from
bestpractical.com/rt - you could, conceivably, hook alerts (or better
yet, acknowledgements?) into either RT or RTFM, a plug-in component
to RT that provides common resolutions to problems. Perhaps if alert
id's were pushed into a ticket, you could fetch out previous 'issues'
associated with an alert, but it'd be considerably fiddly to
customise things as much.
I like what you're thinking - but I don't (personally) see Hobbit
benefiting from such a move, other than perhaps improved integration
with existing open source tools of the sort I've described, but
that's a Henrik thing, of course.
I'd certainly be interested to hear if anybody else on the list has
tried something similar to Jerry?
Regards,
Richard.
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Richard Leyton - richard (at) leyton.org
http://www.leyton.org
On 11 Sep 2006, at 15:00, Jerry Yu wrote:
do you know any built-in mechanism to add comment to an alert
event ? I want to be able to add troubleshooting notes &
resolution & misc notes. It'd be great (dreamily) that a gmail-
style label can be applied to any (current or historical) event, so
one can retrieve 'db temp table problem' label and gets alerts (and
their associated outage, notes, comments) in one place. This become
a knowledge capture device (Doesn't a hobbit desire to gather stuff?)
The only way I know now is to acknowledge an alert when it is still
active.