Re: [hobbit] Custom Purple Times

[Phil Meech <pmeech (at) gmail.com>]

Hi Larry,

Oops!  Thanks for pointing me in the right direction!

Cheers,
Phil

2009/10/1 Larry Barber <lebarber (at) gmail.com>

> From the bb man page:
>
>  status[+LIFETIME][/group:GROUP] HOSTNAME.TESTNAME COLOR <additional text>
>               This  sends in a status message for a single test (column) on
> a single host.  TESTNAME is the name of the column where this test will
>               show up; any name is valid except that using dots in the
> testname will not work.  COLOR must be one of  the  valid  colors:  "green",
>               "yellow",  "red"  or  "clear".   The  colors "blue" and
> "purple" - although valid colors - should not be sent in a status-message,
> as
>               these are handled specially by the Hobbit server.
>               The "additional text" normally includes a local timestamp and
> a summary of the test result on the first line. Any lines following the
>               first one are free-form, and can include any information that
> may be useful to diagnose the problem being reported.
>               The  LIFETIME defines how long this status is valid after
> being received by the Hobbit server. The default is 30 minutes, but you can
>               set any period you like. E.g. for a custom test that runs
> once an hour, you will want to set this to at least 60 minutes -  otherwise
>               the  status  will  go  purple  after 30 minutes. It is a good
> idea to set the LIFETIME to sligtly more than the interval between your
>               tests, to allow for variations in the time it takes your test
> to complete. The LIFETIME is in minutes, unless you add an "h" (hours),
>               "d" (days) or "w" (weeks) immediately after the number, e.g.
> "status+5h" for a status that is valid for 5 hours.
>               The  GROUP  option  is used to direct alerts from the status
> to a specific group.  It is currently used for status generated from the
>               Hobbit clients’ data, e.g. to direct alerts for a "procs"
> status to different people, depending on exactly which process is down.
>
>
> Thanks,
> Larry Barber
>
>
> On 10/1/09, Phil Meech <pmeech (at) gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> Firstly apologies if this is something I should have been able to locate
>> on the mailing list; I've had a quick look but nothing appeared to answer
>> it...
>>
>> I have an external test (shell script) that runs on my Xymon server
>> (4.2.3), and logs into device web servers and gets a segment of HTML and
>> performs some processing on it and sends to the xymon via the bb command.
>> As there are 100 of these devices, I dont really want to be running this
>> test every 10 minutes or so; and I also dont want to have 100 hosts going
>> purple after 20 minutes.  I realise I could call hobbitd with the
>> --no-purple option; but purple is useful under many of the other tests.
>>
>> Is there a way of specifying no purple status on a per test basis?
>> If I specify a hobbitlaunch time of greater than 20 minutes, would the
>> test go purple waiting for hobbitlaunch to run the external again?
>> Is there any other way that I could run this test once, every 4 hours and
>> stop it going purple?
>>
>> As a last ditch resort I was considering storing the status messages
>> (retrieved every 4 hours ideally via the shell script) in different files
>> (per host) on the Xymon server and repeatedly sending this message every 10
>> minutes (hence preventing purple statuses).  Although this would work, it
>> doesnt seem a particularly clean method.
>>
>> Thanks for your time,
>> Phil
>>
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