[Xymon] GROUPs and recovery alerts

[Heather Keen]

The test for the alert works fine - but how do you mimic a "recovered"
message with the --test option?  I don't think you can.


On 3 July 2011 00:29, Root, Paul <Paul.Root at qwest.com> wrote:

>  Have you tried using the test program to see how it acts for the failure?
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> /usr/lib64/xymon/server/bin/hobbitd_alert --test myhost procs
> --duration=500 |grep -v Failed****
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> Paul Root    - Engineer III  - Qwest is becoming CenturyLink****
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> *From:* Heather Keen [mailto:keenha at googlemail.com]
> *Sent:* Saturday, July 02, 2011 12:51 PM
> *To:* Root, Paul
> *Cc:* xymon at xymon.com
> *Subject:* Re: [Xymon] GROUPs and recovery alerts****
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> Yeah, I tried that too. No joy.****
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> On 1 July 2011 19:59, Root, Paul <Paul.Root at qwest.com> wrote:****
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> I generally put the RECOVERED on the mail line.****
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> Paul Root    - Engineer III  - Qwest is becoming CenturyLink****
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> *From:* xymon-bounces at xymon.com [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] *On
> Behalf Of *Heather Keen
> *Sent:* Friday, July 01, 2011 11:47 AM
> *To:* xymon at xymon.com
> *Subject:* [Xymon] GROUPs and recovery alerts****
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> Hi,****
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> I want to be able to group servers so that alerts for one bunch of servers
> go to one group of people, and another group of servesr to another group of
> people.****
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> I used the following config -****
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> analysis.cfg:****
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> HOST=myhost.mydomain.com GROUP=mygroup****
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>      PROC blah****
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>      PROC blahblah****
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>      DISK ....etc****
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> alerts.cfg:****
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> GROUP=mygroup NOTICE RECOVERED COLOR=red****
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>         MAIL me at mydomain.com REPEAT=15****
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> Now, I tested this by stopping one of the PROCs listed, and I successfully
> received the alert e-mail.  However, when I restarted that process to clear
> the alert, the status goes green but I do not receive any recovery message.
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> I also tried just having the GROUP defined against each individual PROC
> line (rather than against the HOST), but that didn't result in a recovery
> message either.****
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> Am I doing something wrong, or is this a bug?****
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> I can provide the debug output from the alert process if required.****
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> Cheers,****
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> Heather****
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