[Xymon] GROUPs and recovery alerts

[Dominique Frise]

I'm afraid you are right !
We have also noticed that RECOVERED msgs do not get sent to GROUPs 
(using Xymon-4.3.2)

Dominique

On 07/ 5/11 11:58 AM, Heather Keen wrote:
> Aye, there is nothing wrong with that.
>
>
> Anyway, I think this is a BUG.
>
> Xymon Version 4.3.3.
> Configuration as follows:
>
> analysis.cfg:
> HOST=myhost.mydomain.com <http://myhost.mydomain.com> GROUP=heather
>          PROC TESTtestTEST 1
>
> (equally, you could have the GROUP entry on the PROC line, doesn't
> matter in this instance as the result is the same)
>
> alerts.cfg:
> HOST=*
>          MAIL heather1 at mydomain.com <mailto:heather1 at mydomain.com> RECOVERED
>
> GROUP=heather
>          MAIL heather2 at mydomain.com <mailto:heather2 at mydomain.com> RECOVERED
>
>
> When the alert is generated, both e-mail addresses get the notification.
>   But when the alert is cleared, only heather1 at mydomain.com
> <mailto:heather1 at mydomain.com> gets the recovery message.
>
> I've tried lots of different configuration options, and the only
> conclusion I can come to is that recovery messages to GROUPs do not
> work.  :(
>
>
> On 4 July 2011 17:58, Asif Iqbal <vadud3 at gmail.com
> <mailto:vadud3 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 12:19 PM, Heather Keen <keenha at googlemail.com
>     <mailto: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?
>
>
>      >
>      > On 4 July 2011 16:48, Root, Paul <Paul.Root at qwest.com
>     <mailto:Paul.Root at qwest.com>> wrote:
>      >>
>      >> You can’t.
>      >>
>      >>
>      >>
>      >> I’ve never used notice. What does it do?
>      >>
>      >>
>      >>
>      >> I’ve never had any luck with recovered on anything except the
>     Mail line.
>      >>
>      >>
>      >>
>      >>
>      >>
>      >> Paul Root    - Engineer III  - Qwest is becoming CenturyLink
>      >>
>      >>
>      >>
>      >> From: Heather Keen [mailto:keenha at googlemail.com
>     <mailto:keenha at googlemail.com>]
>      >> Sent: Monday, July 04, 2011 5:13 AM
>      >>
>      >> To: Root, Paul
>      >> Cc: xymon at xymon.com <mailto:xymon at xymon.com>
>      >> Subject: Re: [Xymon] GROUPs and recovery alerts
>      >>
>      >>
>      >>
>      >> 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
>     <mailto:Paul.Root at qwest.com>> wrote:
>      >>
>      >> Have you tried using the test program to see how it acts for the
>     failure?
>      >>
>      >>
>      >>
>      >> /usr/lib64/xymon/server/bin/hobbitd_alert --test myhost procs
>      >> --duration=500 |grep -v Failed
>      >>
>      >>
>      >>
>      >> Paul Root    - Engineer III  - Qwest is becoming CenturyLink
>      >>
>      >>
>      >>
>      >> From: Heather Keen [mailto:keenha at googlemail.com
>     <mailto:keenha at googlemail.com>]
>      >> Sent: Saturday, July 02, 2011 12:51 PM
>      >> To: Root, Paul
>      >> Cc: xymon at xymon.com <mailto:xymon at xymon.com>
>      >> Subject: Re: [Xymon] GROUPs and recovery alerts
>      >>
>      >>
>      >>
>      >> Yeah, I tried that too. No joy.
>      >>
>      >> On 1 July 2011 19:59, Root, Paul <Paul.Root at qwest.com
>     <mailto:Paul.Root at qwest.com>> wrote:
>      >>
>      >> I generally put the RECOVERED on the mail line.
>      >>
>      >>
>      >>
>      >>
>      >>
>      >> Paul Root    - Engineer III  - Qwest is becoming CenturyLink
>      >>
>      >>
>      >>
>      >> From: xymon-bounces at xymon.com <mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com>
>     [mailto: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 <mailto:xymon at xymon.com>
>      >> Subject: [Xymon] GROUPs and recovery alerts
>      >>
>      >>
>      >>
>      >> Hi,
>      >>
>      >>
>      >>
>      >> 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.
>      >>
>      >>
>      >>
>      >> I used the following config -
>      >>
>      >>
>      >>
>      >> analysis.cfg:
>      >>
>      >> HOST=myhost.mydomain.com <http://myhost.mydomain.com> GROUP=mygroup
>      >>
>      >>      PROC blah
>      >>
>      >>      PROC blahblah
>      >>
>      >>      DISK ....etc
>      >>
>      >>
>      >>
>      >> alerts.cfg:
>      >>
>      >> GROUP=mygroup NOTICE RECOVERED COLOR=red
>      >>
>      >>         MAIL me at mydomain.com <mailto:me at mydomain.com> REPEAT=15
>      >>
>      >>
>      >>
>      >>
>      >>
>      >> 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.
>      >>
>      >>
>      >>
>      >> 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.
>      >>
>      >>
>      >>
>      >> Am I doing something wrong, or is this a bug?
>      >>
>      >>
>      >>
>      >> I can provide the debug output from the alert process if required.
>      >>
>      >>
>      >>
>      >> Cheers,
>      >>
>      >> Heather
>      >>
>      >>
>      >>
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