[hobbit] resend: 2 questions

[Gary Baluha]

The philosophy Hobbit uses for alerting is that you're okay until you reach
a certain threshold.  At that point (yellow) you still have to respond to
the event and take care of it, before it becomes a bigger issue.  If it
continues, then you reach another threshold where stuff can (and usually
does) break.  At this point, you _need_ to respond to the event.

What you are proposing is a fourth level such that you are "beyond
critical".  This is a similar concept to being "fatally killed" (as opposed
to just being "killed").  The trick to running a successful monitoring
system is setting the thresholds in the first place (which is easier said
than done), such that you don't have any false-positives, but even more
importantly, no false-negatives (i.e. an alert you should have gotten, but
didn't).

Can you give a more specific example (in as far as I.P./security will allow)
of what you are trying to accomplish?

On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 11:52 AM, michael nemeth <michael.nemeth at lmco.com>
wrote:

>  One case I can think of is for even 100% you've  lots of but if you hits 0
> free you HAVE to do
> some thing!
>
> Gary Baluha wrote:
>
> On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 10:59 AM, Jeff Newman <jeffnewman75 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> didn't see a reply, so thought i'd do a resend in case it got lost in
>> the shuffle
>>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> Two questions:
>>
>> QUESTION #1: Is it possible to have a third color alert? Meaning:
>>
>> One of my customers wants a setup like this:
>>
>> Custom script runs on client server, reports:
>>
>> foo : 80
>>
>> for example.
>>
>> They want less than 85 to be green, 85-90 yellow, 90-95 red, and above
>> 95 any color, say orange.
>> So far as I can tell, I can only use green, yellow, and red for
>> alerts, and blue and purple are reserved.
>
>
> Currently, no.  But it might help to understand why 4 alert levels are
> desired.
>
>  QUESTION #2:
>>
>> lets say #1 above is possible, so my script sends hobbit the status
>> line based on the it sees, with the
>> status of green, yellow, red, and orange. The hobbit server recieves
>> it, and uses the NCV module to build the rrd etc..
>> In hobbit-alerts.cfg to say does the SERVICE keyword work for custom
>> NCV type columns?
>
>
> The SERVICE tag in hobbit-alerts.cfg works for any column name, NCV or
> otherwise.
>
>
>
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