RE: SCRIPT alert problem with SERVICE=

["Ron Rosenkoetter" <rrosenkoetter (at) tradebotsystems.com>]

Well, we think we've solved the problem.

The man page for hobbit-alerts.cfg shows that the SCRIPT commands takes
two parameters, the path to the script and the RecipientID, and I had
left out the RecipientID (so probably SCRIPT was using the
"SERVICE=disk,conn" as the second argument, which is why it was being
ignored as an alert criteria)

Doesn't really matter what I use for RecipientID, as my script doesn't
use it, but putting any old string there works. The SCRIPT is now only
firing off when the SERVICE matches the actual alert. 

My apologies for not reading the man pages well enough. I'm only posting
the solution in case someone else someday finds the original question in
the archives.

-----Original Message-----
From: Ron Rosenkoetter 
Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2008 2:08 PM
To: 'hobbit (at) hswn.dk'
Subject: SCRIPT alert problem with SERVICE=

I'm having problems understanding how matching is done by hobbit for
sending alerts via the SCRIPT command. I have separated out the services
I want to monitor into two different SCRIPT events, because we want to
monitor disk and connection alerts 24/7, but cpu, mem, tbntp, and procs
only during the day.

Here's the appropriate part of the hobbit-alerts.cfg file

PAGE=KC/KC-Test
   SCRIPT /home/hobbit/server/ext/mail-format-alert.py SERVICE=disk,conn
DURATION>1m REPEAT=20 COLOR=yellow,red RECOVERED TIME=W:0000:2359
   SCRIPT /home/hobbit/server/ext/mail-format-alert.py
SERVICE=cpu,mem,tbntp,procs DURATION>1m REPEAT=20 COLOR=yellow,red
RECOVERED TIME=W:0700:1700
   MAIL ron (at) whatever.com SERVICE=cpu,mem,tbntp,procs DURATION>1m
REPEAT=20 COLOR=yellow,red RECOVERED TIME=W:0000:2359
   MAIL ron (at) whatever.com SERVICE=conn,disk DURATION>1m REPEAT=20
COLOR=yellow,red RECOVERED TIME=W:0700:1700


However, whenever hobbit generates ANY alert it matches on both SCRIPT
lines, and sends the alert twice. It doesn't appear to care about the
SERVICE parameter.

Here's the results I get when running a test alert

../bin/bbcmd hobbitd_alert --test test2003 cpu 500
00016539 2008-07-24 13:52:16 send_alert test2003:cpu state Paging
00016539 2008-07-24 13:52:16 Matching host:service:page
'test2003:cpu:KC/KC-Test' against rule line 124
00016539 2008-07-24 13:52:16 *** Match with 'PAGE=KC/KC-Test' ***
00016539 2008-07-24 13:52:16 Matching host:service:page
'test2003:cpu:KC/KC-Test' against rule line 125
00016539 2008-07-24 13:52:16 *** Match with 'SCRIPT
/home/hobbit/server/ext/mail-format-alert.py SERVICE=conn,disk
DURATION>1m REPEAT=20 COLOR=yellow,red RECOVERED TIME=W:0000:2359' ***
00016539 2008-07-24 13:52:16 Script alert with command
'/home/hobbit/server/ext/mail-format-alert.py' and recipient
SERVICE=conn,disk
00016539 2008-07-24 13:52:16 Matching host:service:page
'test2003:cpu:KC/KC-Test' against rule line 126
00016539 2008-07-24 13:52:16 *** Match with 'SCRIPT
/home/hobbit/server/ext/mail-format-alert.py SERVICE=cpu,mem,tbntp,procs
DURATION>1m REPEAT=20 COLOR=yellow,red RECOVERED TIME=W:0700:1700' ***
00016539 2008-07-24 13:52:16 Script alert with command
'/home/hobbit/server/ext/mail-format-alert.py' and recipient
SERVICE=cpu,mem,tbntp,procs


Note that it works properly with MAIL; the service doesn't match in line
128 and hobbit doesn't generate a MAIL event.


00018965 2008-07-24 13:52:16 Matching host:service:page
'test2003:cpu:KC/KC-Test' against rule line 127
00018965 2008-07-24 13:52:16 *** Match with 'MAIL
ron (at) tradebotsystems.com SERVICE=cpu,mem,tbntp,procs DURATION>1m
REPEAT=20 COLOR=yellow,red RECOVERED TIME=W:0700:1700' ***
00018965 2008-07-24 13:52:16 Mail alert with command 'mail -s "Hobbit
[12345] test2003:cpu CRITICAL (RED)" ron (at) tradebotsystems.com'
00018965 2008-07-24 13:52:16 Matching host:service:page
'test2003:cpu:KC/KC-Test' against rule line 128
00018965 2008-07-24 13:52:16 Failed 'MAIL ron (at) tradebotsystems.com
SERVICE=conn,disk DURATION>1m REPEAT=20 COLOR=yellow,red RECOVERED
TIME=W:0000:2359' (service not in include list)


So what's going on with SERVICE and the SCRIPT event? Any help would be
appreciated.