[Xymon] Configuring alerts

[Even Hauge Juberg]

Hi!

I've been trying a few things to get the correct alerts to the correct staff-member, but for some reason I cannot get it to work. In order to find out if I'm doing something wrong within the configuration of Xymon, or if I have to search somewhere else, I'm reaching out here to see if anyone can give me any pointers.

The scenario is that I have one particular host, that should be running a specific process. Let's say this process is "notepad.exe" - if "notepad.exe" is not running, John should get an email.

What I have done so far is this:

1.       Edited the configuration file on my host as follows in the "procs section": <setting name="notepad.exe" rule="=1" comment="Notepad" alarmcolor="red" />

a.       My goal here is to check if there is one instance of notepad.exe running - if not, give a "red alert".

b.       This seems to be working.  The host in the web-view of Xymon turns red in the procs column, and notepad.exe is shown as running -1 instance if there is not one running. So far so good!

2.       Now I want John to be alerted if notepad is not running so I have edited the alert.cfg in the following way:

a.       HOST=myhostname(the same as in hosts.cfg NAME:myhostname) SERVICE=notepad.exe MAIL john at testlab.local<mailto:john at testlab.local> DURATION>10 COLOR=red

b.       As "notepad.exe is not a service, but a process this is not working. AS "procs" is not a valid argument(at least not listed in the documentation, SERVICE was the closest thing that came to mind. So my question is simply, is there a way to filter alerts by the procs column or will I have to attack this in another way?

c.       I would like to avoid John getting nagged by any other red-alerts from this host, as his responsibility is notepad. :)

Any pointers would be highly appreciated!

Sicnerely,
Even Hauge Juberg
Senior Engineer
Norwegian Biodiversity Information Centre


-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.xymon.com/pipermail/xymon/attachments/20180219/96b17c68/attachment.html>