[hobbit] More alert testing

[Henrik Stoerner]

On Tue, May 31, 2005 at 02:05:52PM -0500, Rich Smrcina wrote:
> I have email macros configured thusly:
> 
> $pg-rich=%rsmrcina at wi.rr.com
> $pg-tom=%(2628531588 at vtext.com|tbrockman at ourdomain.com)

This is wrong. You're trying to use regular expressions for mail
addresses - that has never been possible. Reg. expressions are for
matching hostnames, testnames and such - not for mail adresses.

$pg-rich=rsmrcina at wi.rr.com
$pg-tom=2628531588 at vtext.com tbrockman at ourdomain.com

will do what you want.

> HOST=%(vse*|vm*) DURATION>5m
>         MAIL $pg-tom
>         MAIL $pg-rich
> 
> So if any test on a host beginning with vse or vm fails, both Tom and 
> Rich will get a page after 5 minutes.
> 
> When I test the process, I get the following:
> 
> hobbit at hobbit1:~/server/bin> ./bbcmd hobbitd_alert --test vm2 conn
> 2005-05-31 14:00:10 Using default environment file 
> /home/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitserver.cfg
> 00002400 2005-05-31 14:00:10 send_alert vm2:conn state Paging
> 00002400 2005-05-31 14:00:10 Matching host:service:page 'vm2:conn:' 
> against rule line 145
> 00002400 2005-05-31 14:00:10 Failed 'HOST=%(vse*|vm*) DURATION>5m' (min. 
> duration 0<300)

You need to pass a duration value to the --test option, otherwise it
runs the test matching assuming the alert has just triggered (so the
duration is 0 seconds, which is less than your setting of 5 minutes).
Try
   ./bbcmd hobbitd_alert --test vm2 conn 500

(the "500" is seconds).


Henrik