[xymon] hobbitd_alert question

[Buchan Milne]

On Wednesday, 29 September 2010 13:26:37 Rob McBroom wrote:
> On Sep 28, 2010, at 3:13 PM, McGraw, Robert P wrote:
> > The FQDN was the problem.
> 
> Just to be clear, I don't think it has to be the FQDN, it just has to match
> what you put in bb-hosts. Someone please correct me if that's wrong.

In the generic case, you are right (well, bb-hosts, hobbit-alerts,cfg and 
hostname provided to hobbitd_alert --test should agree), in the specific case 
the FQDN is used in bb-hosts and hobbit-alerts.cfg.


On Tuesday, 28 September 2010 20:00:30 McGraw, Robert P wrote:
[...]
> A snippet of my bb-host is as follows.
> 
> 	page MathNet7 WEB Servers
> 	group-compress <font size="+1">WEB Servers</font>
> 	128.210.003.166 galileo.math.purdue.edu      # prefer \
> 	ntp ssh \

[...]

On Tuesday, 28 September 2010 19:31:26 McGraw, Robert P wrote:
[...]
> HOST=galileo.math.purdue.edu
>         MAIL rmcgraw at math.purdue.edu FORMAT=TEXT REPEAT=60
> SERVICE=conn,cpu,disk,procs,http

Regards,
Buchan