Re: [hobbit] single alert for a host going puprle

["Hezki Englander" <me2unix (at) gmail.com>]

Thanks but I'm not asking about how to avoid having purple dots at all.
When you are monitoring a large amounts of clients, it is quite likely to
have a client not reporting once in a while.
This is why I am asking for a solution to reduce the amount of notifications
per host in case of everything from it is getting purple.


On 11/13/07, Josh Luthman <josh (at) imaginenetworksllc.com> wrote:
>
> Well your first problem there can't really be avoided unless the person
> modifying the firewall rules is more on top of their game.
>
> The second issue you can easily have it start up when entering runlevel 3
> (what a lot of people use out there, remainder of them being 5) but doing an
> ln -s /etc/init.d/hobbit /etc/rc3.d/S82hobbit
>
> I have never seen Hobbit crash, but I have only been using it for upwards
> of a month or two.  Still, a crashed hobbit won't disallow ICMP echoes.
>
> Josh
>
> On 11/13/07, Frédéric Mangeant <frederic.mangeant (at) steria.com> wrote:
> >
> > Josh Luthman a écrit :
> > > Let me understand your situation.  You have one host, IE:
> > >
> > > 1.2.3.4 <http://1.2.3.4> mybroken.host.com <http://mybroken.host.com>
> > > # ssh dns pop3 smtp http://mybrokenhost.com < http://mybrokenhost.com>
> > >
> > > Now after some time you have ssh and dns going down, but the box is
> > > still green on conn/ping?  Logically, there are two problems - bad
> > > bind and bad opensshd, so two alerts is a wise choice.
> > >
> > > If you are saying with the example above that every test goes down
> > > because it is offline, in my case at least, it only gives me one alert
> > > - bad conn, the rest are tagged with "depend" essentially and don't
> > > alert you.  Is this not the case for you?
> >
> >
> > Hi
> >
> > there are various situations where a host responds to ping but does not
> > send any status to hobbitd :
> > - firewall rule modified, so no connection from a server to the hobbitd
> > daemon allowed
> > - Hobbit client not run automatically after system restart
> > - Hobbit client stopped, hung, etc.
> >
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