[hobbit] cpu alerts

[Bill Perez]

>What time should Hobbit consider the start-of-event time?  Some prefer
>the current arrangement where it uses the time it goes non-green; others
>prefer the time it goes to a color which triggers an alert.  I've heard
>arguments both ways.

Thanks Henrik.  The way it is working in the server I have running
4.2.1RC1is how I'm looking for it to run on the standby server, which
I just
installed 4.2.1P1 on and I'm still getting the alerts with the duration
including the yellow time, not just when it goes to red\panic.  Is there a
way I can change it so that it will work as it does in 4.2.1RC1 and only
send an alert after 10 minutes of  a red panic that doesn't include the
yellow in the duration?  I'm also finding I don't get recovery notices if it
goes from red to yellow and then to green.


On 8/8/06, Henrik Stoerner <henrik at hswn.dk> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 01:29:00PM -0400, Bill Perez wrote:
> > >Could you show us a copy of the cpu history log (in
> > >~hobbit/data/hist/HOSTNAME.cpu) compared with the notifications log
> > >from ~hobbit/server/logs/notifications.log ?
> >
> > Here is the hostname.cpu and section from notifications.log for those
> alerts
> > this morning:
> >
> > >From /hobbit/data/hist/HOSTNAME.cpu
> > Tue Aug  1 10:34:30 2006 yellow 1154442870 1200
> > Tue Aug  1 10:54:30 2006 red 1154444070 600
> > Tue Aug  1 11:04:30 2006 green 1154444670 299
> > Tue Aug  1 11:09:29 2006 yellow 1154444969 301
> > Tue Aug  1 11:14:30 2006 red 1154445270 301
> > Tue Aug  1 11:19:31 2006 green 1154445571
> >
> > Tue Aug  1 10:54:30 2006 uswosfad.domain.com.cpu (10.128.40.31)
> b.perez at domain.com[175] 1154444070 200
> > Tue Aug  1 11:04:30 2006 uswosfad.domain.com.cpu (10.128.40.31)
> b.perez at domain.com[175] 1154444670 200 1800
> > Tue Aug  1 11:19:30 2006 uswosfad.domain.com.cpu (10.128.40.31)
> b.perez at domain.com[175] 1154445570 200
> > Tue Aug  1 11:19:42 2006 uswosfad.domain.com.cpu (10.128.40.31)
> b.perez at domain.com[175] 1154445581 200 612
>
> OK, Hobbit thinks the first event begins at 10:34 when the status
> goes yellow. Even though this doesn't trigger an alert, it registers
> this as the starttime of the event. So when it goes red at 10:54, your
> 10 minute delay has already elapsed, and you get an immediate alert.
> Then when it goes green at 11:04 you of course get a recovery notice.
>
> Same thing when the goes yellow again at 11:09. No alert is sent, but
> this time is registered as the start of the event. So at 11:14 when it
> goes red you do not get an alert (11:09->11:14 is only 5 minutes), but
> you do get the alert at 11:19:30 - and when it goes green at 11:19:31
> it sends out a "recovered" message.
>
> What time should Hobbit consider the start-of-event time?  Some prefer
> the current arrangement where it uses the time it goes non-green; others
> prefer the time it goes to a color which triggers an alert.  I've heard
> arguments both ways.
>
>
> Regards,
> Henrik
>
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