[hobbit] Waiting longer than one polling failure to alert

[Larry Barber]

You can also look in the bb-hosts man pages for the badhttp, badconn tags.

Thanks,
Larry Barber

On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 2:53 PM, Oliver Grube <oliver_grube at campbellsoup.com>
wrote:

> Hi Mark,
>
> see the man page:
>
>  *"DURATION*Rule matching an alert if the event has lasted longer/shorter
> than the given duration. E.g. *DURATION>10m* (lasted longer than 10
> minutes) or *DURATION<2h* (only sends alerts the first 2 hours). Unless
> explicitly stated, this is in minutes - you can use 'm', 'h', 'd' for
> 'minutes', 'hours' and 'days' respectively. "
> You can configure your alerts only being triggered after a period of
> time...
>
> eg:
> HOST=* EXHOST=%(acp.*) EXSERVICE=msgs,cpu
>  MAIL $helpdesk DURATION>2 REPEAT=60 UNMATCHED COLOR=red FORMAT=plain
>  MAIL $security DURATION>60 REPEAT=600 COLOR=red UNMATCHED FORMAT=plain
>  MAIL $manager DURATION>120 REPEAT=600 RECOVERED COLOR=red FORMAT=plain
>
> As you can see in the example, we use this to trigger the escalation
> process...
>
> Hope this helps!
>
> mit freundlichen Grüßen - Best regards
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>
> Oliver Grube
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> [hobbit] Waiting longer than one polling failure to alert
>  My apologies if this is covered in the docs or in past discussions, my
> google-fu hasn't come through for me on this one. We're running 4.1.2p1,
> and we have several troublesome hosts that, for whatever reason, are
> constantly experiencing periodic disconnects with the hobbit server. I'm
> not too concerned about the disconnects (we have some new firewalls that are
> probably to blame, and by all other indications, the hosts and services are
> fine), but we're constantly getting alerts. Is there any way to make hobbit
> alert on a host or service, only after it's failed two or three times in a
> row?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Mark
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