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

[Steve Holmes <sholmes42 (at) mac.com>]

Thanks to Rob and Martha. Who would have thought that 'fprnts' would match
'PRNT' ? Changing 'PRNT' in the regex to '^PRNT' fixed the problem. I may
anchor all of the expressions that way to prevent future similar problems.

Thanks again,
Steve

On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 9:45 AM, Martha McConaghy <URMM (at) vm.marist.edu> wrote:

> 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
> >
>
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