NOTICEs are not sent when enable or disable "all"

Charles Jones jonescr at cisco.com
Mon Dec 19 20:03:25 CET 2005


*crickets*

Nobody commented on this issue...can anyone else confirm the behavior?

-Charles

Charles Jones wrote:

> I just built a new hobbit server with 4.1.2p1 and I am still seeing 
> the behavior of, if you enable or disable "all" services for a host, 
> it does not trigger the NOTICE rule and thus no email is sent out.  
> Below are the last 2 messages I sent reporting this problem.
>
> -Charles
>
> Charles Jones wrote:
>
>> I am stiil trying to troubleshoot my missing enable messages, so I 
>> deleted the NOTICE rule mentioned below and created a new rule:
>> ---
>> # Send me notice alerts of enable and disable
>> HOST=*
>>         MAIL me at mydomain.com NOTICE NOALERT
>> ---
>>
>> I then proceeded to disable 2 services on a host. I observed that I 
>> received a disable notification, both by actual receipt of the email, 
>> and by tail -f /var/log/maillog.
>>
>> Then I enabled the services (by enabling "ALL" for that host), 
>> and...nothing. No mail was sent, as verified by my tailing of the log.
>>
>> I then immediately disabled ALL services on another host, and no mail 
>> was sent.
>> I then immediately re-enabled ALL services on that same host, and no 
>> mail was sent.
>>
>> Through testing I discovered that when you disable or enable _"ALL"_ 
>> services on a host, no NOTICE message is generated.  If I disable or 
>> disable _individual_ services, notice messages are generated and an 
>> email is sent out.
>>
>> If you need me to do further testing, let me know.
>>
>> -Charles
>>
>> Charles Jones wrote:
>>
>>> 1. When I disable a host in hobbit, it says it was disabled by 
>>> unknown at 1.2.3.4 <mailto:unknown at 1.2.3.4>.
>>> In the bb maint.pl script, it had an option to put a username, but I 
>>> don't see an option to do this in the Hobbit Maint page, so is 
>>> "unknown" hard coded, or does it look for it somewhere else?
>>>  
>>> 2. I added the "NOTICE" rule to my hobbit-alerts.cfg
>>>  
>>> HOST=* SERVICE=* COLOR=red
>>> MAIL me at mydomain.com <mailto:me at mydomain.com> RECOVERED NOTICE
>>>  
>>> I then tested disabling the cpu service for a host, and I received 
>>> an email with the disable message:
>>>  
>>> -----
>>> From: hobbit at myhost.com <mailto:hobbit at myhost.com>
>>> Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2005 5:01 PM
>>> To: me at mydomain.com <mailto:me at mydomain.com>
>>> Subject: Hobbit servername:cpu NOTICE
>>> servername:cpu INFO
>>> Monitoring of servername:cpu has been DISABLED by unknown for 240 
>>> minutes
>>> Disabled by: unknown @ 1.2.3.4
>>> Reason: testing disable notice
>>> -----
>>>  
>>> This is what I expected to get.  However, I then went and re-enabled 
>>> the disabled service, and I did not get an email saying it was 
>>> re-enabled.  I checked the /var/log/maillog to make sure that it 
>>> wasn't a mail delay.  There simply was no email sent about the 
>>> enable.  I assume this isn't normal behavior :)
>>>  
>>> -Charles
>>
>>
>

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