[hobbit] Limiting Alerting by recipient?

[Peter Welter]

Hi Eric,

I'm not familiar with the SMS-behaviour of BB but I'm with Hobbit.
Hobbit alerting in general is very simple but elegant and sending
SMS-messages is just executing an alert rule and that can be from very
simple/easy to really complex. Besides, Hobbit does not send any
alerts for fi. a disk full when the host is not available. You can
specify your own alerting days/times, hosts, services, how often
(repeat daily) etc. while still the entire alerting configuration is
easy to maintain.

Please have a look at: http://www.hswn.dk/hobbit/help/hobbit-alerts.html

Regards
Peter
2006/11/6, Eric van de Meerakker <eric-list-1 at softlution.com>:
>
> Hello,
>
>
> I've now got SMS alerting in Hobbit configured and running (using the
> smstools package and a Falcom Samba 55 USB modem under SuSE Linux
> Enterprise Server 9), and I'm experiencing a very different behaviour
> for Hobbit from what I was accustomed to in Big Brother.
>
> Basically, in Hobbit I get an SMS alert for every host/test combination
> that fails. We have situations where that generates about 10 SMS
> messages for a single true error. Sending ten messages where one would
> suffice seems a bit wasteful.
>
> In Big brother the default behaviour was to send one SMS message only,
> upon the first fail, and then suspend sending more messages to the same
> recipient until the repeat delay was expired. Is there any way to get
> this behaviour in Hobbit 4.2.0, or has anyone already created something
> generally useful in e.g. the SMS alert interface script he is using?
>
> If no-one has a solution, I'm going to write my own. Just checking if
> I'm about to re-invent the wheel!
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Eric.
>
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