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Actually the licenses are better example, Right now I can create
numeric limits of say<br>
97-102 yellow, 103 to 121 red, but have no way of telling when I go
over. And that the first quesion<br>
management going to ask, being they are very happy to see there money
well spent with 100%<br>
utilization. <br>
My clearcase script DO return rejections. So with orange I could tell
management how many times <br>
(at least that) and how long it was orange . Also, of course try to
handle the orange condition!<br>
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Point is a "Drop Dead, color is useful .<br>
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Gary Baluha wrote:
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<div dir="ltr">If that's the case, a fourth color would have the same
limitation ;-)<br>
(That's a lot of disk space if 100% full = gigs of free space)<br>
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With the lack of a finer granularity, the only option you have is to
create a custom script (client-side or server-side should work in this
case) that checks the _amount_ (as opposed to _percentage_) of free
space, and set a green/yellow/red threshold based on that. You could
then set up the Hobbit alert rules like any other test, and it sounds
like this would solve your particular problem.<br>
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(a client-side script would probably be the easiest to set up,
depending on how many machines it would need to be propagated to)<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 2:57 PM, michael
nemeth <<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:michael.nemeth@lmco.com">michael.nemeth@lmco.com</a>>
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Sorry, disagree!<br>
I can have gigs of space left at 100% not critical at all !!!! Its
not "beyond critical" its fatal if you hit zero free !<br>
Either one needs finer granularity (isn't numerical limits in the
work) or a new fatal color. I have that run near 100 %
all the time too. <br>
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Gary Baluha wrote:
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<div dir="ltr">The philosophy Hobbit uses for alerting is that
you're
okay until you reach a certain threshold. At that point (yellow) you
still have to respond to the event and take care of it, before it
becomes a bigger issue. If it continues, then you reach another
threshold where stuff can (and usually does) break. At this point, you
_need_ to respond to the event.<br>
<br>
What you are proposing is a fourth level such that you are "beyond
critical". This is a similar concept to being "fatally killed" (as
opposed to just being "killed"). The trick to running a successful
monitoring system is setting the thresholds in the first place (which
is easier said than done), such that you don't have any
false-positives, but even more importantly, no false-negatives (i.e. an
alert you should have gotten, but didn't).<br>
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Can you give a more specific example (in as far as I.P./security will
allow) of what you are trying to accomplish?<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 11:52 AM,
michael
nemeth <<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:michael.nemeth@lmco.com" target="_blank">michael.nemeth@lmco.com</a>>
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<div bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000">One case I can think of
is for even 100% you've lots of but if you
hits 0 free you HAVE to do<br>
some thing! <br>
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Gary Baluha wrote:
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<div dir="ltr">On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 10:59 AM, Jeff Newman
<<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:jeffnewman75@gmail.com"
target="_blank">jeffnewman75@gmail.com</a>>
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style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Hi,<br>
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didn't see a reply, so thought i'd do a resend in case it got lost in<br>
the shuffle<br>
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Hi All,<br>
<br>
Two questions:<br>
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QUESTION #1: Is it possible to have a third color alert? Meaning:<br>
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One of my customers wants a setup like this:<br>
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Custom script runs on client server, reports:<br>
<br>
foo : 80<br>
<br>
for example.<br>
<br>
They want less than 85 to be green, 85-90 yellow, 90-95 red, and above<br>
95 any color, say orange.<br>
So far as I can tell, I can only use green, yellow, and red for<br>
alerts, and blue and purple are reserved.</blockquote>
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Currently, no. But it might help to understand why 4 alert levels are
desired.<br>
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#2:<br>
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lets say #1 above is possible, so my script sends hobbit the status<br>
line based on the it sees, with the<br>
status of green, yellow, red, and orange. The hobbit server recieves<br>
it, and uses the NCV module to build the rrd etc..<br>
In hobbit-alerts.cfg to say does the SERVICE keyword work for custom<br>
NCV type columns?</blockquote>
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The SERVICE tag in hobbit-alerts.cfg works for any column name, NCV or
otherwise. <br>
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