[hobbit] Email alert based on specific process

[Peter Welter]

Hi all,

Since 4.2.0 Hobbit officially supports the GROUP-label mechanism for
distinguishing processes, disks, files, etc. When I quote Henrik
correctly "alerts in both BB and Hobbit trigger on a status column.",
this gives me the following problem.

Let's say we have the following config:

hobbit-clients.cfg:

SERVER=name
  DISK / 90 95 GROUP=unix
  DISK /database 90 95 GROUP=dba

hobbit-alerts.cfg:

GROUP=dba
  MAIL dba at somewhere.com bla bla

GROUP=unix
  MAIL unix at somewhere.com bla bla

The threshold for /database is exceeded, status is yellow, mail is
sent to the dba. Great! Now the /-partition starts to grow, the status
remains yellow because the dba's are investigating the problem but
have not solved the issue, but the unix-team is not alerted because no
status change has occured.

Any hints???

Below I found a discussion from last year, when I think the idea was
born and the term LABEL was introduced but is called GROUP now.

Thanks,
Peter


2005/11/13, Scott Walters <scott at packetpushers.com>:
> On Fri, 11 Nov 2005, (Henrik Stoerner) wrote:
>
> > the rules you define in the hobbit-clients.cfg file. E.g. if you have
> > two process checks for a host, the check for the "httpd" process can
> > be associated with a "web" label, and the check for the "mysqld"
> > process gets a "database" label. Then you can define alerts that use
> > these labels just like we currently use e.g. the service names, i.e.
> >
> >    HOST=*
> >        MAIL dbadmin at foo.com LABEL=database
> >        MAIL webadmin at foo.com LABEL=web
>
> Beautiful.  And it would be ideal if those 'labels' also ended up as
> columns in the display, not just for notifications.
>
> So for the the 'database' label, you would like to see mysql up, nothing
> bad in the log file, and the /mysql partition is OK.
>
>
> --
> Scott Walters
> -PacketPusher