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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> SebA [mailto:spa@syntec.co.uk]
<BR><B>Sent:</B> 14 February 2011 15:42<BR><B>To:</B>
xymon@xymon.com<BR><B>Subject:</B> [xymon] Re: bb-hosts:group,
hobbit-alerts:GROUP, bb-hosts:CLASS questions<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
class=338241515-14022011> Hi,</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=338241515-14022011>I was looking for
a way of sending alerts based on bb-hosts:group and could not find a
way. Is there no way of doing this? The nearest thing I could find
was this e-mail below (which implies it is possible, but my debug tests
suggest it does not work), but I could not find a follow-up to this
e-mail. Alerts based on bb-hosts group and CLASS seem like a good
idea... Or a way of designating network tests as belonging to a certain
GROUP. (Lower-case "group" refers to the existing directive in bb-hosts
(hosts.cfg), while upper-case GROUP refers to the hobbit-alerts
(alerts.cfg) and hobbit-clients (<FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3>analysis.cfg) </FONT>setting.) e.g.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
class=338241515-14022011>myIP myHost #
ftp[:port[:s]][@ipaddress][=GROUP]</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=338241515-14022011>To be honest, I
think either alerting by CLASS or bb-hosts:group would suffice, or
in this particular case, I could move these hosts to their own page because
there are a fair number. But I have other smaller groups/classes where
their own page would be overkill...</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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class=338241515-14022011></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=338241515-14022011>Anyway, I'm
looking for a good way to set-up alerts for network-tests on particular
classes of servers... Is my best bet just to create a macro in
alerts.cfg with all the hostnames I need? (And to remember to update
it.)</SPAN></FONT></DIV><!-- Converted from text/rtf format -->
<P><SPAN lang=en-gb><FONT face=Arial size=2>Kind regards,</FONT></SPAN> </P>
<P><SPAN lang=en-gb><SPAN class=338241515-14022011></SPAN></SPAN><FONT
face=Arial><FONT size=2>S<SPAN
class=338241515-14022011>ebA</SPAN></FONT></FONT><BR><SPAN lang=en-gb><FONT
face=Arial color=#808080 size=2> </FONT></SPAN> <BR></P><PRE>-----Original Message-----<BR><A href="http://www.xymon.com/archive/2007/06/msg00074.html">http://www.xymon.com/archive/2007/06/msg00074.html</A>
<STRONG><FONT size=4>bb-hosts:group, hobbit-alerts:GROUP, bb-hosts:CLASS questions</FONT></STRONG></PRE><PRE><HR><!--X-Subject-Header-End--><!--X-Head-of-Message--><UL><LI><EM>Subject</EM>: bb-hosts:group, hobbit-alerts:GROUP, bb-hosts:CLASS questions<LI><EM>From</EM>: Charles Jones <jonescr (at) cisco.com><LI><EM>Date</EM>: Mon, 04 Jun 2007 14:10:14 -0700<LI><EM>Organization</EM>: Cisco Systems</LI></UL><HR><!--X-Head-Body-Sep-End--><!--X-Body-of-Message--><TT>I've been using HTML in the group titles in my bb-hosts, to spruce up </TT><TT>the look of the hobbit page. Example: </TT><PRE style="MARGIN: 0em"></PRE><TT>group-except files <font color="#33ebf4"><strong><i>Internal </TT><TT>Servers</strong></i></font> </TT><PRE style="MARGIN: 0em"></PRE><TT>Now I've come to a situation where I may want to create a paging alias </TT><TT>that is tied to a particular group. My first question is, will I have to </TT><TT>use the same HTML-ized name in hobbit-alerts.cfg as I did in bb-hosts? </TT><TT>In other words: </TT><PRE style="MARGIN: 0em">GROUP=<font color="#33ebf4"><strong><i>Internal Servers</strong></i></font>
MAIL someone (at) somwhwhere.com
</PRE><TT>My second question is, why is there no option to define alerts by CLASS </TT><TT>(bb-hosts has a CLASS:Classname option)? This would allow more granular </TT><TT>alert definitions as you could have a class of clients that are in </TT><TT>multiple groups that you would want to have a specific alert for. </TT><PRE style="MARGIN: 0em">Thanks,
-Charles
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