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Re: [hobbit] Grouping alerts for multiple hosts. (purple)



On 8/1/07, Gregory Wege <gwege (at) infomanage.net> wrote:
>                 I'm in the process of upgrading from bb to hobbit. In BB I
> had written a few custom tests that would grep through the bb status logs
> for a group of hosts matching color purple, it would then report what it
> found  and bb would send out an alert based on the results.  This allowed me
> to monitor the status of our remote offices, if it went down I would receive
> a sms page.

The equivalent of "grepping through the bb status logs" would be the
hobbitdboard command.

     server/bin/bb localhost hobbitdboard | grep purple

The format of the information is:

     hostname|test|color|.....

All you need to do is reformat that so it fits into your existing BB script....

Ralph Mitchell