[hobbit] hobbit-alerts.cfg - DURATION

Gary Baluha gumby3203 at gmail.com
Wed Mar 14 20:13:53 CET 2007


Now that I think of it, if the goal is just to have the alert send an email
once, you probably just want to remove the REPEAT= part (not sure if there
is a default for this), or optionally change it to something like
REPEAT=1d.  In that case, the DURATION isn't needed.

On 3/14/07, Larry Barber <lebarber at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I think you have the inequality backwards on your DURATION clause, as it
> is written no alert will be issued for for alerts that are older than 3
> minutes, probably should be DURATION>3, not DURATION<3.
>
> Thanks,
> Larry Barber
>
> On 3/14/07, cits.bogajewski at daimlerchrysler.com <cits.bogajewski at daimlerchrysler.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > thanks for ur reply.
> >
> > gumby3203 at gmail.com schrieb am 13.03.2007 16:53:25:
> >
> > > it should be counting the time from when the alert changes status
> > > (so, green-to-yellow, yellow-to-red, etc)
> >
> > thought so
> >
> > > Try using the bbcmd "hobbitd_alert" test below to see if it is
> > > working as intended.  It can be used as below:
> > > /var/hobbit/server/bin/bbcmd hobbitd_alert --test <hostname> <host
> > test>
> >
> > works in principle as expected, although there is no possibility to
> > reproduce my scenario using test utility
> >
> > > Also, you might want to consider using DURATION<3m (specifying "m"
> > > for minutes).  I'm not sure what the default is, but I personally
> > > prefer to be explicit; makes reading it a little easier as well.
> >
> > from man pages: "The duration is specified as a number, _optionally_
> > followed by 'm' (minutes, default), 'h' (hours) or 'd' (days)."
> >
> > --debug output of hobbitd_alert looks like:
> >
> > (initial alert yellow)
> >
> > 2007-03-13 14:38:58 hobbitd_alert: Got message 1139
> > @@page#1139|1173793138.770212|xx.xx.xx.xx|myhost|disk|xx.xx.xx.xx|1173794938|yellow|green|1173793138|pct|643201|||
> >
> > 2007-03-13 14:38:58 startpos 2590, fillpos 2590, endpos -1
> > 2007-03-13 14:38:58 Got page message from myhost:disk
> > 2007-03-13 14:38:58 Alert status changed from 0 to 1
> > 2007-03-13 14:38:58 Found a first matching rule
> > 2007-03-13 14:38:58 No more secondary matching rule
> > 2007-03-13 14:38:58 1 alerts to go
> > 2007-03-13 14:38:58 Found a first matching rule
> > 2007-03-13 14:38:58 send_alert myhost:disk state 0
> > 2007-03-13 14:38:58 No more secondary matching rule
> > 2007-03-13 14:38:58 Want msg 1140, startpos 2590, fillpos 2590, endpos
> > -1,
> > usedbytes=0, bufleft=263649
> > 2007-03-13 14:38:58 Found a first matching rule
> > 2007-03-13 14:38:58   repeat myhost|disk|script|0123456789 at 0
> > 2007-03-13 14:38:58   Alert for myhost:disk to 0123456789
> > 2007-03-13 14:38:58 Opening file /opt/hobbit/server/etc/bb-hosts
> >
> > (4min later red alert raises)
> >
> > 2007-03-13 14:42:49 hobbitd_alert: Got message 1223
> >
> > @@page#1223|1173793369.998387|xx.xx.xx.xx|myhost|disk|xx.xx.xx.xx|1173795169|red|yellow|1173793369|pct|643201|||
> > 2007-03-13 14:42:49 startpos 47243, fillpos 47243, endpos -1
> > 2007-03-13 14:42:49 Got page message from myhost:disk
> > 2007-03-13 14:42:49 Severity increased, cleared repeat interval:
> > myhost/disk yellow->red
> > 2007-03-13 14:42:49 Found no first matching rule
> > 2007-03-13 14:42:49 Want msg 1224, startpos 47243, fillpos 47243, endpos
> >
> > -1, usedbytes=0, bufleft=218996
> >
> > so hm. i am not sure i got any lines of interest, but this looks not
> > very
> > helpfull.
> >
> > Chears,
> > Anatoli
> >
> >
> > >
> > > Dear Hobbits,
> > >
> > > is DURATION keyword within hobbit-alerts.cfg relates to the time
> > period
> > > one test is in a special state, yellow or red, or more general the
> > time
> > > period since non-green state occurs. In example, i want to get exact
> > one
> > > notification at yellow state and one at red, but the following
> > > configuration does not work. I get notified on initial yellow alert,
> > but
> > > not on red one occurring 4 min later.
> > >
> > > HOST=myhost SERVICE=disk COLOR=yellow DURATION<3
> > > SCRIPT $SSMSS $ABSMS REPEAT=5 RECOVERED
> > >
> > > HOST=myhost SERVICE=disk COLOR=red DURATION<3
> > > SCRIPT $SSMSS $ABSMS REPEAT=5 RECOVERED
> > >
> > > Any ideas? Thanks :-)
> > >
> > > Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Yours sincerely
> > >
> > > Anatoli Bogajewski
> > >
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