bb-hosts:group, hobbit-alerts:GROUP, bb-hosts:CLASS questions

[SebA]

 Hi,
 
I was looking for a way of sending alerts based on bb-hosts:group and could
not find a way.  Is there no way of doing this?  The nearest thing I could
find was this e-mail below (which implies it is possible, but my debug tests
suggest it does not work), but I could not find a follow-up to this e-mail.
Alerts based on bb-hosts group and CLASS seem like a good idea...  Or a way
of designating network tests as belonging to a certain GROUP.  (Lower-case
"group" refers to the existing directive in bb-hosts (hosts.cfg), while
upper-case GROUP refers to the hobbit-alerts (alerts.cfg) and hobbit-clients
(analysis.cfg) setting.)  e.g.
myIP    myHost    # ftp[:port[:s]][@ipaddress][=GROUP]
To be honest, I think either alerting by CLASS or bb-hosts:group would
suffice, or in this particular case, I could move these hosts to their own
page because there are a fair number.  But I have other smaller
groups/classes where their own page would be overkill...
 
Anyway, I'm looking for a good way to set-up alerts for network-tests on
particular classes of servers...  Is my best bet just to create a macro in
alerts.cfg with all the hostnames I need?  (And to remember to update it.)

Kind regards, 

SebA
  


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bb-hosts:group, hobbit-alerts:GROUP, bb-hosts:CLASS questions

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*	Subject: bb-hosts:group, hobbit-alerts:GROUP, bb-hosts:CLASS
questions
*	From: Charles Jones <jonescr (at) cisco.com>
*	Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2007 14:10:14 -0700
*	Organization: Cisco Systems

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I've been using HTML in the group titles in my bb-hosts, to spruce up the
look of the hobbit page. Example: 
group-except files <font color="#33ebf4"><strong><i>Internal
Servers</strong></i></font> 
Now I've come to a situation where I may want to create a paging alias that
is tied to a particular group. My first question is, will I have to use the
same HTML-ized name in hobbit-alerts.cfg as I did in bb-hosts? In other
words: 
GROUP=<font color="#33ebf4"><strong><i>Internal Servers</strong></i></font>

    MAIL someone (at) somwhwhere.com


My second question is, why is there no option to define alerts by CLASS
(bb-hosts has a CLASS:Classname option)? This would allow more granular
alert definitions as you could have a class of clients that are in multiple
groups that you would want to have a specific alert for. 
Thanks,

-Charles
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