[Xymon] Alert.cfg PAGE directive

[Asif Iqbal]

On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 4:58 PM, Roland Soderstrom
<Rolands at logicaltech.com.au> wrote:
> Hi,
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> Setting up alerts for the OPS, so I added these lines to alert.cfg
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> $OPSHOSTS=&(host1|host2|host3|host4|host5)
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> HOST=$OPSHOSTS PAGE=OPS
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you want it like this

$OPSHOSTS=host1|host2|host3|host4|host5
HOST=%$OPSHOSTS

OR
PAGE=OPS




>             SCRIPT /usr/local/xymon/server/ext/html_mail.pl ops at example.com
> FORMAT=PLAIN REPEAT=900 RECOVERED
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> We have many hosts but the OPS just monitor the PRODUCTION ones.
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> And they also got just a subset of tests.
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> This page is defined in hosts.cfg
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> page OPS OPS
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> group-only cluster|app_test|oracle_test|conn|cpu|disk|procs Production
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> 10.0.0.1      host1
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> 10.0.0.2      host2
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> 10.0.0.3      host3
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> 10.0.0.4      host4
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> 10.0.0.5      host5
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> This seems to work quite well except that the alert.cfg PAGE=OPS alerts on
> any alert on any of the hosts on that page.
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> It doesn’t alert on other hosts so that works.
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> ex. They get alerts on msg but that is not defined as a test in the
> group-only directive on the OPS page.
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> It confuses them a lot because they get an alert mail but their page is
> still green...
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> I thought PAGE should only alert on the group-only tests defined in
> hosts.cfg.
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> Is this a bug or feature?
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> -      Roland
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> Ps. Henrik there is a typo in alerts.cfg on line 70
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>                     hobbit-clients.cfg configuration
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