[hobbit] Alerting on matching group tags in bb-hosts

[Hubbard, Greg L]

If your server naming convention includes something to indicate type and
location, then you can probably create a host group macro in the alert
configuration for each location, and then create the rules you need to
send those alerts to the users that need to get them.

If you are willing to do the work, you can set up this type of alerting
entirely within the alerting rules and pay no attention to what is set
up in bb-hosts.

GLH 

-----Original Message-----
From: Dennis Ortsen [mailto:dortsen at gmail.com] 
Sent: Friday, May 04, 2007 5:35 AM
To: hobbit at hswn.dk
Subject: [hobbit] Alerting on matching group tags in bb-hosts

Hi All,

I'm busy setting up alerting (first timer). We have several departments
doing specialized work. One dept. Handles the network, the other linux
servers, again another for windows servers and finally one that handles
all the webservers. The departments are also spread over two locations.

I've created a few pages (no subpages) in bb-hosts which contain group
items as well. For instance:

**************************************
page windows Windows

group Domain controllers
1.2.3.4	dcroot	# COMMENT:"main DC"
1.2.3.5	dclocation1	# COMMENT:"DC for location1"
1.2.3.6	dclocation2	# COMMENT:"DC for location2"

group Windows servers in location1
1.2.4.1	server1-location1
1.2.4.2	server2-location1

group Windows servers in location2
1.2.4.3	server3-location2
1.2.4.4	server4-location2
**************************************

All servers have a hobbit-compatible client (Bbwin) installed.

>From what I have read in the documentation, it is not possible to send
alert emails to a defined mail group in hobbit-alerts.cfg based on the
group tag in bb-hosts. It is possible for (sub)page tags and hosts
matching a regexp.
But what if I want all problems to any host under group "Windows servers
in location2" to be directed to a list of email addresses for that
specific location?

How can I accomplish this?

Thnx in advance

Regards,

Dennis


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