[hobbit] Big Alerting Issue

Henrik Stoerner henrik at hswn.dk
Mon Dec 11 10:48:28 CET 2006


On Sun, Dec 10, 2006 at 09:27:14PM -0500, Geoff Hallford wrote:
> I have a problem where Hobbit is not properly sending alerts based on the
> PAGE criteria. When I look at the info button for TESTHOST and TESTHOST1, it
> *DOES* shows an alert to test at test.org. When I run the test 'bbcmd
> hobbitd_alert --test TESTHOST --color=red' or 'bbcmd hobbitd_alert --test
> TESTHOST --color=red' it *DOESN'T' show that it matched an alert:

The command is wrong, since you cannot have options after the hostname -
but you do need a columnname instead. Try

   bbcmd hobbitd_alert --test --color=red TESTHOST conn

I tried using your config files, and cannot reproduce the problem; I 
get the alert. Is this your entire hobbit-alerts.cfg ?


Regards,
Henrik




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