only alert if X number of hosts are already in error

[Bruce Lysik]

Hi,

So while discussing monitoring with my coworkers, the most common statement is:

I don't really care if one server in a certain pool goes into error.  I only want to get paged if 5 or 10 in that same pool do.

I've been trying to figure out how to make this work in hobbit.  I suppose a paging script which keeps track of hosts in error and only pages if above that number would be possible. 

But would this be something more easily done within hobbit itself?  Does anyone think this would be useful?

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Bruce Z. Lysik  <blysik at shutterfly.com>
Operations Engineer



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