Re: [hobbit] Questions about Enable/Disable/NOTICE

[ZanDAhaR <allan (at) zandahar.net>]

Charles Jones wrote:

> 1. When I disable a host in hobbit, it says it was disabled by 
> unknown (at) 1.2.3.4 <mailto:unknown (at) 1.2.3.4>.
> In the bb maint.pl script, it had an option to put a username, but I 
> don't see an option to do this in the Hobbit Maint page, so is 
> "unknown" hard coded, or does it look for it somewhere else?
>  
> 2. I added the "NOTICE" rule to my hobbit-alerts.cfg
>  
> HOST=* SERVICE=* COLOR=red
> MAIL me (at) mydomain.com <mailto:me (at) mydomain.com> RECOVERED NOTICE
>  
> I then tested disabling the cpu service for a host, and I received an 
> email with the disable message:
>  
> -----
> From: hobbit (at) myhost.com <mailto:hobbit (at) myhost.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2005 5:01 PM
> To: me (at) mydomain.com <mailto:me (at) mydomain.com>
> Subject: Hobbit servername:cpu NOTICE
> servername:cpu INFO
> Monitoring of servername:cpu has been DISABLED by unknown for 240 minutes
> Disabled by: unknown @ 1.2.3.4
> Reason: testing disable notice
> -----
>  
> This is what I expected to get.  However, I then went and re-enabled 
> the disabled service, and I did not get an email saying it was 
> re-enabled.  I checked the /var/log/maillog to make sure that it 
> wasn't a mail delay.  There simply was no email sent about the 
> enable.  I assume this isn't normal behavior :)
>  
> -Charles

AFAIK that only works if you use the default apache example 
configuration which sets up the hobbit stuff with htaccess password 
protection. We dont use it so they always come out as unknown (at) ipaddy. On 
another customers we have the htaccess setup and it puts in the username 
when you disable it

HTH

Allan