Re: [hobbit] no service-alert for all hosts

[Steinar M. Skúlason <steinarms (at) gmail.com>]

based on the day I would use crontab

but I obviously didn't get the questions because I didn't even recognize the
IGNORE switch

always trying to create the wheel instead of reading the docs I guess :)


-Steinar

On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 10:35 PM, Steinar M. Skúlason
<steinarms (at) gmail.com>wrote:

> oops, accidentally sent that one, damn touch pad :)
>
> what I meant to finish is you only mention which services you would like to
> receive alerts for
>
> HOST=hostname
>    MAIL bill (at) microsoft.com RECOVERED REPEAT=60 COLOR=red SERVICE=http
>
>
> If it's based on time of day or some other criteria, then I think that
> hobbit-alerts.cfg resolves environment variales
> Or just create a small sed script to change lines in hobbit-alerts.cfg ..
> like :
>
> #!/bin/bash
> file="/usr/lib/hobbit/server/etc/hobbit-alerts.cfg"
> OLDTEXT="SERVICE=.*$"
> NEWTEXT="http,ssh"
> if [ -f $file ]; then
>    sed "s/^$OLDTEXT/$NEWTEXT/g" < $file >/tmp/$$ && mv /tmp/$$ $file
> fi
>
> This replaces everything from SERVICE to end of line with what you put in
> NEWTEXT for all lines in the file
>
> This will only change the first occurrence
> sed "s/^$OLDTEXT/$NEWTEXT/" < $file >/tmp/$$ && mv /tmp/$$ $file
>
> an easier sed search and relplace can also be just
> sed  -e 's/*oldtext*/newtext/' <filename>
>
>
> Hope this helps,
> wasn't quite sure what you ment
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 10:16 PM, Steinar M. Skúlason <steinarms (at) gmail.com
> > wrote:
>
>> Do you want to ignore these permanently
>> Or randomly ?
>> Or based on what day it is ?
>>
>> Of course permanently is easy
>>
>> HOST=sfdsf
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 9:54 PM, Martin Flemming <martin.flemming (at) desy.de
>> > wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Hi !
>>>
>>> I've got in my hobbit-alerts.cfg
>>> many HOST and PAGE/SUBPAGE rules ...
>>>
>>> Now i need (at the top i think)
>>> one rule, which disable alerting of some Services
>>> for all hosts ..
>>>
>>> My first attempt is at the top
>>>
>>> IGNORE SERVICE=test1,test2,test3
>>>
>>> .. i thought, that's it .. but now, my mailmaster
>>> is angry because many mails hanging around in the  mail-queue
>>>
>>> with IGNORE (at) desy.de ....
>>>
>>> Any hint ?
>>>
>>> thanks & cheers,
>>>
>>>       Martin
>>>
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>>
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