[hobbit] delete queued alerts

[Smith, Jim]

Although I've been using Hobbit and Big Brother for a few years, I don't
consider myself a "guru".  But I think that if your Hobbit server was
not receiving messages from the clients, and, of course, the ping tests
were failing, the alerts were generating and being sent out via email.
But since your email program couldn't send them out, the alert emails
just kept stacking-up in the mail queue.  As soon as network
connectivity was restored, all those emails got sent...BOOM!

 

I doubt if you would have had time to do anything to stop those messages
from going out.  It probably only took a few seconds for them to get
sent.

 

Perhaps it would be possible to write a script that would shut down the
Hobbit server application if the email program couldn't send messages.
Other than that, I can't immediately come up with a clean solution for
this issue.

 

Later!

 

Jim Smith

SVHS

Little Rock

 

 

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From: jm54601 at yahoo.com [mailto:jm54601 at yahoo.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2008 4:36 PM
To: hobbit at hswn.dk
Subject: Re: [hobbit] delete queued alerts

 

We use email for most and scripts for critical alerts.  It appears that
both were held up 'in queue' while the network connection was hosed.  I
was curious if Hobbit actually had a queue where this stuff ended up,
since the alerts sent after the reboot.

 

----- Original Message ----
From: Henrik Stoerner <henrik at hswn.dk>
To: hobbit at hswn.dk
Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2008 3:42:07 PM
Subject: Re: [hobbit] delete queued alerts

In <346972.30160.qm at web38606.mail.mud.yahoo.com> "jm54601 at yahoo.com"
<jm54601 at yahoo.com> writes:

>We had add an 'a-ha' moment the other day when our Hobbit server lost
netwo=
>rk connectivity, and once rebooted it blasted out basically every alert
con=
>figured.=A0 If this were to happen again, is there a way to silence or
dele=
>te queued alerts before rebooting?=0A=0AI'm also curious how this
community=
> handles a case like=A0that.=0A=0A=0A      

I suppose your alerts go out via e-mail ? In that case, the issue
resolves to
stopping your mailer daemon and clearing the mail queue of the pending
alerts.


Regards,
Henrik


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