[hobbit] stale alerts

[Gary Baluha]

Order of events:
1am: alert went yellow, email was sent out
1:15am: alert recovered
2am, and each additional hour: email was sent out saying alert was
yellow (it was actually showing green)
10:30a: I restart Hobbit and get the "stale alert" message, and it
finally stops sending alerts.  Recovery email was never sent out, even
though it is in the alert rules.

On Nov 14, 2007 11:22 AM, Josh Luthman <josh at imaginenetworksllc.com> wrote:
> 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?