Re: [hobbit] Hobbit/Devmon disk alert forever yellow

[Buchan Milne <bgmilne (at) staff.telkomsa.net>]

On Monday 18 May 2009 17:30:33 john.r.rothlisberger (at) accenture.com wrote:
> I have a recently installed xymon for testing and have added only a
> couple hosts, one of which I have also setup devmon.  This one hosts
> seems to ignore the defaults set for disk alerts in
> server/etc/hobbit-client.cfg.  I am running xymon 4.3.0 beta 2.
>
> I currently have (in hobbit-client.cfg - the only active rules):
> DEFAULT
>         # These are the built-in defaults.
>         UP      1h
>         LOAD    5.0 10.0
>         DISK    * 32 64
>         MEMPHYS 100 101
>         MEMSWAP 50 80
>         MEMACT  90 95

Until there is an API to query thresholds in hobbit-clients.cfg or included 
files, devmon thresholds will have to be configured in the DEVMON tag in the bb-
hosts file.

> Does devmon negate bbwin?  Is there some additional settings that I need
> in hobbit-client.cfg to allow for something that devmon is doing?

devmon doesn't read hobbit-clients.cfg, and IMHO, it shouldn't manually parse 
it.

Regards,
Buchan