[xymon] alerting with combo question

[Martin Flemming]

Thanks a lot, Henrik !

It works like a charm :-)

cheers,
 	martin

On Tue, 30 Nov 2010, Henrik St?rner wrote:

> In <alpine.LRH.2.00.1011301045100.29248 at pal34.desy.de> Martin Flemming <martin.flemming at desy.de> writes:
>
>> I've tested it with the bbcombotest.cfg like
>
>> AtlasLustre.lustre-atlas = (tcx040.lustre\-atlas + tcx060.lustre\-atlas + tcx080.lustre\-atlas + tcx120.lustre\-atlas )  >= 4
>
>> This Alarm works of course, but i've got only this alert-message
>
>> Red Mon Nov 29 14:37:07 2010
>
>> (tcx040.lustre\-atlas+tcx060.lustre\-atlas+tcx080.lustre\-atlas+tcx120.lustre\-atlas)>=4 = (1+1+1+1)>=4 = 0
>> &green tcx040.lustre-atlas
>> &green tcx060.lustre-atlas
>> &green tcx080.lustre-atlas
>> &red tcx120.lustre-atlas
>
>
>> Without the additional informations of all user-directory  and there size,
>> and thats logical of course .. but didn't solve my problem :-(
>
>
> I'd use a script to handle the alerting in that case. You can grab the
> current status-data from Xymon using the bb 'hobbitdlog' command, so
> you can include those data in your alert message. See
> http://www.xymon.com/xymon/help/xymon-alerts.html for details on alert
> scripts.
>
>
> Something like this - completely untested:
>
>
> #!/bin/sh
>
> # $BBALPHAMSG contains the alert message text. Save it to
> # a file, then scan it for lines beginning with "&red" to get
> # the problem hosts. The grab the log-status for these hosts
> # and append it to the alert message. Finally, send the
> # alert.
>
> echo "$BBALPHAMSG" >/tmp/alert.txt
> egrep '^&red|^&yellow' /tmp/alert.txt | while read L
> do
>   LOGID=`echo $L | awk '{print $2}'`  # Get the host.status ID
>   # Append the problem details to the alert text
>   echo "$LOGID details"           >>/tmp/alert.txt
>   $BB $BBDISP "hobbitdlog $LOGID" >>/tmp/alert.txt
> done
> # Send out the alert
> mail -s "Lustre filesystem $BBCOLORLEVEL alert" $RCPT </tmp/alert.txt
> exit 0
>
>
> In hobbit-alerts.cfg, use
>
>   HOST=AtlasLustre TEST=lustre-atlas
>      SCRIPT /usr/local/bin/lustrealert.sh admin at foo.com
>
>
> Regards,
> Henrik
>
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