[Xymon] Alert.cfg PAGE directive

[Asif Iqbal]

On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 7:31 PM, Roland Soderstrom
<Rolands at logicaltech.com.au> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Tried setting just the PAGE
> Ie.
> PAGE=OPS
>    SCRIPT /usr/local/xymon/server/ext/html_mail.pl ops at example.com FORMAT=PLAIN REPEAT=900 RECOVERED
> Didn't work, same issue.

do you have a dir like

  server/www/OPS/index.html

under ~xymon or wherever your xymon server dir is ?




>
> Setting it explicitly works fine
> Ie.
> $OPSHOSTS=host1|host2|host3|host4|host5
> HOST=%$OPSHOSTS SERVICE=%(cluster|app_test|oracle_test|conn|cpu|disk|procs)
>    SCRIPT /usr/local/xymon/server/ext/html_mail.pl ops at example.com FORMAT=PLAIN REPEAT=900 RECOVERED
>
> For me it is just that the PAGE directive doesn't work as I'm expecting.
>
> - Roland
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Asif Iqbal [mailto:vadud3 at gmail.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 28, 2011 9:12 AM
> To: Roland Soderstrom
> Cc: xymon at xymon.com
> Subject: Re: [Xymon] Alert.cfg PAGE directive
>
> On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 4:58 PM, Roland Soderstrom
> <Rolands at logicaltech.com.au> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>>
>>
>> Setting up alerts for the OPS, so I added these lines to alert.cfg
>>
>>
>>
>> $OPSHOSTS=&(host1|host2|host3|host4|host5)
>>
>> HOST=$OPSHOSTS PAGE=OPS
>>
>
> 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
>>
>>
>>
>> We have many hosts but the OPS just monitor the PRODUCTION ones.
>>
>> And they also got just a subset of tests.
>>
>> This page is defined in hosts.cfg
>>
>> page OPS OPS
>>
>> group-only cluster|app_test|oracle_test|conn|cpu|disk|procs Production
>>
>> 10.0.0.1      host1
>>
>> 10.0.0.2      host2
>>
>> 10.0.0.3      host3
>>
>> 10.0.0.4      host4
>>
>> 10.0.0.5      host5
>>
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> It doesn't alert on other hosts so that works.
>>
>> ex. They get alerts on msg but that is not defined as a test in the
>> group-only directive on the OPS page.
>>
>> It confuses them a lot because they get an alert mail but their page is
>> still green...
>>
>>
>>
>> I thought PAGE should only alert on the group-only tests defined in
>> hosts.cfg.
>>
>> Is this a bug or feature?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> -      Roland
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Ps. Henrik there is a typo in alerts.cfg on line 70
>>
>>                     hobbit-clients.cfg configuration
>>
>>
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>
>
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