[hobbit] alert storm / intelligent extra mailscript

[Martin Flemming]

Heureka !

Works like a charme, of course  :-)

.. but if someone got such "intelligent mailscript"
i'm interesting anyway ... :-)


 	martin


On Fri, 17 Apr 2009, Martin Flemming wrote:

>
>
> Ok, i've to read again the manual first .. :-(
>
> http://www.hswn.dk/hobbit/help/manpages/man1/bb.1.html
>
> XYMON MESSAGE SYNTAX
>
> disable HOSTNAME.TESTNAME DURATION <additional text>
>    Disables a specific test for DURATION minutes. This will cause the status 
> of this test to be listed as "blue" on the BBDISPLAY server, and no alerts 
> for this host/test will be generated. If DURATION is given as a number 
> followed by s/m/h/d, it is interpreted as being in seconds/minutes/hours/days 
> respectively. Todisablealltestsforahost,useanasterisk*forTESTNAME.
>
> Right ?
>
> I will try it .. sorry
>
> cheers,
> 	 martin
>
> On Fri, 17 Apr 2009, Martin Flemming wrote:
>
>>
>>  On Fri, 17 Apr 2009, Buchan Milne wrote:
>> 
>> >   On Friday 17 April 2009 11:16:17 Martin Flemming wrote:
>> > >   Hi !
>> > > 
>> > >   I've got an problem with my colleagues and the alert-storm
>> > >   if a hole batchfarm will be rebooted for kernel-upgrade etc.
>> > >     .. and the person, who did it, doesn't deactivate them or make an
>> > >   Acknowledge-Downtime, don't ask me why ... he hate web-guis, want to 
>> > >   make
>> > >   only one command on the console ...
>> > > 
>> > >   I know, i asked something similiar before
>> > >   http://www.hswn.dk/hobbiton/2009/01/msg00398.html
>> > >   Re: [hobbit] remote/commandline Acknowledge Alerts
>> > 
>> >   IMHO, planned changes should be preceded by disabling the tests that 
>> >   would
>> >   be
>> >   affected,
>>
>>  Yep,  you're right of course ..
>> 
>> >   which can easily be done with a command-line ...
>>
>>  But how i know early the alert-id for the host/service e.g. cpu & conn for
>>  host1,host2 ?
>>
>>  NAME
>>         bb-ack.cgi - Hobbit CGI script to acknowledge alerts
>> 
>>
>>        bb-ack.cgi is passed a QUERY_STRING environment variable with the
>>  ACTION, NUMBER, DELAY and MESSAGE parameters.
>> 
>>
>>        NUMBER is the number identifying the host/service to be
>>  acknowledged. It is included in all alert-messages sent out by Hobbit.
>>
>>  Or did i something missing ?
>>
>>  cheers,
>>
>>        Martin
>> 
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Gruss

        Martin Flemming


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