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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 color=teal face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;color:teal;font-weight:bold'>Although
I’ve been using Hobbit and Big Brother for a few years, I don’t
consider myself a “guru”. But I think that if your Hobbit
server was not receiving messages from the clients, and, of course, the ping
tests were failing, the alerts were generating and being sent out via
email. But since your email program couldn’t send them out, the
alert emails just kept stacking-up in the mail queue. As soon as network
connectivity was restored, all those emails got sent…BOOM!<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;color:teal;font-weight:bold'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 color=teal face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;color:teal;font-weight:bold'>I doubt
if you would have had time to do anything to stop those messages from going
out. It probably only took a few seconds for them to get sent.<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;color:teal;font-weight:bold'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 color=teal face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;color:teal;font-weight:bold'>Perhaps
it would be possible to write a script that would shut down the Hobbit server
application if the email program couldn’t send messages. Other than
that, I can’t immediately come up with a clean solution for this issue.<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 color=teal face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;color:teal;font-weight:bold'>Later!<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 color=teal face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;color:teal;font-weight:bold'>Jim Smith<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;color:teal;font-weight:bold'>SVHS<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
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jm54601@yahoo.com [mailto:jm54601@yahoo.com] <br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Tuesday, October 14, 2008
4:36 PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> <st1:PersonName w:st="on">hobbit@hswn.dk</st1:PersonName><br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: [hobbit] delete
queued alerts</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>We use email for most and scripts for critical alerts. It appears
that both were held up 'in queue' while the network connection was hosed.
I was curious if Hobbit actually had a queue where this stuff ended up, since
the alerts sent after the reboot.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>----- Original Message ----<br>
From: Henrik Stoerner <henrik@hswn.dk><br>
To: <st1:PersonName w:st="on">hobbit@hswn.dk</st1:PersonName><br>
Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2008 3:42:07 PM<br>
Subject: Re: [hobbit] delete queued alerts<br>
<br>
In <<a href="mailto:346972.30160.qm@web38606.mail.mud.yahoo.com"
ymailto="mailto:346972.30160.qm@web38606.mail.mud.yahoo.com">346972.30160.qm@web38606.mail.mud.yahoo.com</a>>
"<a href="mailto:jm54601@yahoo.com" ymailto="mailto:jm54601@yahoo.com">jm54601@yahoo.com</a>"
<<a href="mailto:jm54601@yahoo.com" ymailto="mailto:jm54601@yahoo.com">jm54601@yahoo.com</a>>
writes:<br>
<br>
>We had add an 'a-ha' moment the other day when our Hobbit server lost
netwo=<br>
>rk connectivity, and once rebooted it blasted out basically every alert
con=<br>
>figured.=A0 If this were to happen again, is there a way to silence or
dele=<br>
>te queued alerts before rebooting?=0A=0AI'm also curious how this
community=<br>
> handles a case like=A0that.=0A=0A=0A <br>
<br>
I suppose your alerts go out via e-mail ? In that case, the issue resolves to<br>
stopping your mailer daemon and clearing the mail queue of the pending alerts.<br>
<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
Henrik<br>
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