[Xymon] GROUPs and recovery alerts

[Asif Iqbal]

On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 12:19 PM, Heather Keen <keenha at googlemail.com> wrote:
> NOTICE means that when you enable or disable an alert you'll get a msg.
> I can get RECOVERED to work on HOST or MAIL or SCRIPT lines, just as long as
> they aren't in a GROUP.

RECOVERED and COLOR=RED on same line?


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> On 4 July 2011 16:48, Root, Paul <Paul.Root at qwest.com> wrote:
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>> You can’t.
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>> I’ve never used notice. What does it do?
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>> I’ve never had any luck with recovered on anything except the Mail line.
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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: Monday, July 04, 2011 5:13 AM
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>> To: Root, Paul
>> Cc: xymon at xymon.com
>> Subject: Re: [Xymon] GROUPs and recovery alerts
>>
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>> 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.
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>> On 3 July 2011 00:29, Root, Paul <Paul.Root at qwest.com> wrote:
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>> 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,
>>
>> Heather
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