[hobbit] More alert testing

Rich Smrcina rsmrcina at wi.rr.com
Tue May 31 22:04:53 CEST 2005


Of course that works much better.

Thanks.

Henrik Stoerner wrote:
> On Tue, May 31, 2005 at 02:05:52PM -0500, Rich Smrcina wrote:
> 
>>I have email macros configured thusly:
>>
>>$pg-rich=%rsmrcina at wi.rr.com
>>$pg-tom=%(2628531588 at vtext.com|tbrockman at ourdomain.com)
> 
> 
> This is wrong. You're trying to use regular expressions for mail
> addresses - that has never been possible. Reg. expressions are for
> matching hostnames, testnames and such - not for mail adresses.
> 
> $pg-rich=rsmrcina at wi.rr.com
> $pg-tom=2628531588 at vtext.com tbrockman at ourdomain.com
> 
> will do what you want.
> 
> 
>>HOST=%(vse*|vm*) DURATION>5m
>>        MAIL $pg-tom
>>        MAIL $pg-rich
>>
>>So if any test on a host beginning with vse or vm fails, both Tom and 
>>Rich will get a page after 5 minutes.
>>
>>When I test the process, I get the following:
>>
>>hobbit at hobbit1:~/server/bin> ./bbcmd hobbitd_alert --test vm2 conn
>>2005-05-31 14:00:10 Using default environment file 
>>/home/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitserver.cfg
>>00002400 2005-05-31 14:00:10 send_alert vm2:conn state Paging
>>00002400 2005-05-31 14:00:10 Matching host:service:page 'vm2:conn:' 
>>against rule line 145
>>00002400 2005-05-31 14:00:10 Failed 'HOST=%(vse*|vm*) DURATION>5m' (min. 
>>duration 0<300)
> 
> 
> You need to pass a duration value to the --test option, otherwise it
> runs the test matching assuming the alert has just triggered (so the
> duration is 0 seconds, which is less than your setting of 5 minutes).
> Try
>    ./bbcmd hobbitd_alert --test vm2 conn 500
> 
> (the "500" is seconds).
> 
> 
> Henrik
> 
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