[hobbit] Alert code showing up as zero - 'Hobbit [0] sac-pdbs-01.mydomain.com:cpu warning (YELLOW)'

[Henrik Stoerner]

On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 12:11:37AM -0700, Brian Lynch wrote:
> I may be missing a config step here... I am getting alerts that show up with 
> zero for the numeric code. At the same time, I get the standard numeric 
> code. See the examples below. 
> 
> Hobbit [0] sac-pdbs-01.mydomain.com:cpu warning (YELLOW)
> Hobbit [831423] monitor.mydomain.com:hobbitd warning (YELLOW)
> Hobbit [924556] monitor.mydomain.com:bbgen warning (YELLOW)

Those numbers are not service-codes, unless this is from some script
you've created for alerting - they are alert cookies, the number you use
for acknowledging an alert.

It's quite allright - albeit unusual, but it depends on the random()
number generator in your system library - for the cookie to be zero.


Henrik