hobbitd_alert: Servers on multiple pages & PAGE= rules

[s_aiello at comcast.net]

Since I have not seen a response I will assume there presently isn't a known 
workaround. The only workaround I can come up with is the use of MACROS in 
the hobbit-alerts.cfg. Basically using MACROS to define a group of hosts, and 
then creating an alert rule with HOST=$MacroName.
$GROUPA=%HOSTA|HOSTB|HOSTC|HOSTF
HOST=$GROUPA

This would be similar to HostGroup (hg-) in BigBrother. I haven't tested this 
yet. I was hoping that PAGE= would work for any page a Device is listed on 
and not just the top level one. That would make management of alert rules 
much easier and was one of the big features in Hobbit I was looking forward 
to.

I still do not know if PAGE= only working for the top level Page listing is a 
Bug or not. I did see a past mailing list article 
(http://www.hobbitmon.com/hobbiton/2005/05/msg0t0211.html) and a patch to fix 
hobbitd_alert --test option. I did not see that patch mentioned in the 
all-in-one patch, nor was I able to apply the patch, there was an error.

I believe this issue is also bigger then just the failure occuring during 
the --test option. I do not see alert rules being applied in the info page, 
nor do I receive alerts. I tried looking into the code, but was unable to 
come up with an answer/fix myself.

Henrik, or anyone else, if you have time to dig into this, I would appreciate 
it greatly.

 ~Steve


On Tuesday 10 April 2007 16:11, s_aiello at comcast.net wrote:
> Searching the Mailing list archives, I see a few others have experienced
> the same problem. So is there a recommended work-around , or is this on the
> todo list to be fixed.
>
> Any information would be most welcomed, Thanks.
>  ~Steve
>
> On Friday 30 March 2007 16:30, s_aiello at comcast.net wrote:
> > Lets say I have the following bb-hosts file:
> > page servers
> > subpage Web Web Servers
> > 1.2.3.4		Web01.domain.com			#
> > 1.2.3.5		Web02.domain.com			#
> > Subpage Other Other Web Servers
> > 0.0.0.0		Web02.domain.com			#
> >
> > And now I have the following hobbit-alerts.cfg:
> > PAGE=servers/Other SERVICE=conn
> > 	MAIL coolguy at domain.com COLOR=red,yellow
> >
> > Now I run the command, "bin/bbcmd hobbitd_alert --test Web02.domain.com
> > conn", I see:
> > 2007-03-30 15:09:38 Using default environment
> > file ..../server/etc/hobbitserver.cfg
> > 00000897 2007-03-30 15:09:38 send_alert Web02.domain.com:conn state
> > Paging 00000897 2007-03-30 15:09:38 Matching
> > host:service:page 'Web02.domain.com:conn:server/Web' against rule line
> > 119 00000897 2007-03-30 15:09:38 Failed 'PAGE=servers/Other SERVICE=conn'
> > (pagename not in include list)
> >
> > So it seems when using PAGE= alert rules only honor the first page a
> > device is listed on. Is this by design ?