Re: [hobbit] maint.pl with no email

[Asif Iqbal <iqbala-hobbit (at) qwestip.net>]

On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 02:23:47PM, Henrik Stoerner wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 07:49:46AM -0500, Asif Iqbal wrote:
> 
> > In bigbrother the following code of maint.pl were able to send a page.
> > 
> > "&bbsend("now","$bbpager","page notify-admin.maint enable\n\nThe f
> > ollowing at jobs that were scheduled to disable tests have been
> > CANCELLED\nDate: " . &POSIX_time(
> > $nowtime) . "\n$cancelledby$notification");"
> > 
> > But in Hobbit I tried with the same code and it did not send any
> > page.
> 
> That is because Hobbit doesn't support the BB "page" protocol. If
> you send hobbitd such a request, it is silently dropped. I've updated
> the bb man-page to reflect this.
> 
> Alerts in Hobbit happen as a result of a "status" message. The magic
> "notify-admin" hostname does not exist in Hobbit.
> 
> 
> > I have HOST=notify-admin SERVICE=maint
> > 	MAIL my.email (at) here
> > 
> > And when I did the ./bin/bbcmd hobbitd_alert --test notify-admin maint,
> > it matches the rule fine.
> 
> If you had a host called "notify-admin" with a "maint" status column,
> then this rule would control alerts for that status.

1.2.3.4	notify-admin # noconn maint 

The above entry should take care of it? I do not have any valid host
called notify-admin with valid IP or FQDN. Should I expect any alert
because this is not a valid host?

Thanks

> 
> 
> Henrik
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