[hobbit] stale alerts

[Josh Luthman]

You're saying it went yellow, then green.  The log tells you it sent an
alert when it was yellow.

I'm not sure I'm seeing the problem here =/  It sent an alert first when it
was yellow and another when it switch to green to inform you it recovered,
correct?

On 11/14/07, Gary Baluha <gumby3203 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Yes, the alert history shows it went yellow and then 5 minutes later
> recovered.  The web page is showing everything correct.  However, when
> I check the notifications.log file, I can see that it was still
> sending alerts about it being yellow, even though it was definitely
> green.
>
> On Nov 14, 2007 10:38 AM, Josh Luthman <josh at imaginenetworksllc.com>
> wrote:
> > Click on it the host's test and click on history - was red at all?
> >
> > Are the WWW pages updating?  Look in the top right corner of the page
> once
> > you click on the host's test link.
> >
> >
> >
> >  On 11/14/07, Gary Baluha <gumby3203 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > I noticed this morning that our Hobbit server was sending out alerts
> > > for the process check for a machine that was actually shown as green
> > > on the hobbit  web page.  I checked on the monitored machine, and the
> > > alert was indeed green, yet the server was still sending out emails as
> > > though it were in a yellow state.  I restarted the Hobbit client on
> > > the monitored machine, and then restarted the Hobbit server on the
> > > server.  After doing this, I noticed the following in the page.log
> > > file:
> > >
> > > 2007-11-14 10:26:13 Stale alert for host-name:procs dropped
> > >
> > > (I changed the actual host name to "host-name" to protect the
> innocent)
> > > What exactly does this mean?  Before I restarted the Hobbit server
> > > process, I manually edited the alert.chk temp file and removed the
> > > erroneous alert, but that didn't correct the problem.  It was only
> > > after I restarted the Hobbit server process that it cleared the alert.
> > > Is this a bug in the 4.2.0 code, or is there something else going on
> > > here?
> > >
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> >
> >
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