Re: [xymon] hobbit-alerts.cfg and where's the needle

[Martha McConaghy <URMM (at) VM.MARIST.EDU>]

Steve,

It sounds like you want the bbcmd to test the alerts file.  Its documented
in http:/.../xymon/help/hobbit-alerts.html.  It allows you to do a test
run through your hobbit-alerts.cfg file and find all the places that might
trigger an alert based on given criteria such as the hostname and test
(i.e. cpu, disk, etc.).  It can also test yellow alerts as well as red.
The hobbitd_alert man page also contains more detailed information.

./bin/bbcmd hobbitd_alert --test osiris.hswn.dk cpu


I have found this to be invaluable as our alerts file has grown.  Hope
it helps.

Martha McConaghy
Marist College



On Mon, 3 Jan 2011 16:39:20 -0500 Steve Holmes said:
>Is there any way to find out exactly where a recipient is being picked up to
>be alerted for a specific host?
>I.e. (on Xymon 4.2.3) I have 2 recipients for all tests on a pair of hosts
>and there should be only one. They are windows application servers and both
>the app admins and unix admins are getting the alerts. The info pages for
>both hosts on that page show both groups as recipients. I've scoured the
>hobbit-alerts.cfg file and I can NOT see any way the unix admin group should
>be included as a recipient for either of the hosts on the page in question,
>nor for either of the individual hosts.
>
>What I'm looking for is a tool that will read the hobbit-alerts.cfg file and
>take args like a host name and recipient, and return an explanation of how
>the results are compiled, in particular, which config line or lines would
>result in a specific recipient being included. I know this is highly
>unlikely to exist, but I thought I'd ask anyway.
>
>Thanks!
>Steve
>Purdue University/ITSO
>