Re: [hobbit] Alert Config.

["Josh Luthman" <josh (at) imaginenetworksllc.com>]

Greatly appreciate it.  Thanks Allan!

On 10/30/07, Allan <allan (at) zandahar.net> wrote:
>
> Josh Luthman wrote:
> > While we're on the subject of alert configuration, could someone
> > confirm mine?
> >
> > HOST=*
> >   MAIL josh (at) imaginenetworksllc.com
> > <mailto:josh (at) imaginenetworksllc.com> COLOR=RED DURATION>15m RECOVERED
> >
> > It will only email once something has been red for 15m and it will
> > email once it has become green again - correct?
> >
> > On 10/30/07, *Henrik Stoerner* < henrik (at) hswn.dk
> > <mailto:henrik (at) hswn.dk>> wrote:
> >
> >     On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 02:46:37PM -0500, James Wade wrote:
> >     > Will this work O.K.?
> >     >
> >     >
> >     >
> >     > HOST=%ep* SERVICE=http
> >
> >     the regex is wrong, you probably want "%ep.*"
> >
> >     > MAIL 555555555 (at) mycell.com <mailto:555555555 (at) mycell.com>
> >     REPEAT=15 COLOR=RED DURATION>5m DURATION<35 RECOVERED
> >     >
> >     > So, that it will not page the cell unless the outage lasts
> >     longer than 5
> >     > minutes,
> >     >
> >     > and will only page twice. (Assuming after 5 minute outage it
> >     pages, then
> >     > pages every fifteen minutes for thirty minutes - twice)
> >
> >     For http, this will work as intended. There is a "gotcha" when this
> is
> >     used with tests that can go yellow - this is not the case with
> "http"
> >     tests. But e.g. a disk check that goes yellow for an hour, then red
> >     would NOT trigger an alert in this case, first because you don't
> alert
> >     on yellow, and second because the duration of the incident exceeds
> 35
> >     minutes when it does go red (DURATION begins when the status goes
> >     non-green).
> >
> >
> >     Regards,
> >     Henrik
> >
> >
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> >
> >
> >
> >
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>
> Correct :)
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