[Xymon] GROUPs and recovery alerts

Heather Keen keenha at googlemail.com
Mon Jul 4 18:19:17 CEST 2011


NOTICE means that when you enable or disable an alert you'll get a msg.

I can get RECOVERED to work on HOST or MAIL or SCRIPT lines, just as long as
they aren't in a GROUP.


On 4 July 2011 16:48, Root, Paul <Paul.Root at qwest.com> wrote:

>  You can’t.****
>
> ** **
>
> I’ve never used notice. What does it do?****
>
> ** **
>
> I’ve never had any luck with recovered on anything except the Mail line.**
> **
>
> ** **
>
> ** **
>
> Paul Root    - Engineer III  - Qwest is becoming CenturyLink****
>
> ** **
>
> *From:* Heather Keen [mailto:keenha at googlemail.com]
> *Sent:* Monday, July 04, 2011 5:13 AM
>
> *To:* Root, Paul
> *Cc:* xymon at xymon.com
> *Subject:* Re: [Xymon] GROUPs and recovery alerts****
>
>  ** **
>
> The test for the alert works fine - but how do you mimic a "recovered"
> message with the --test option?  I don't think you can.****
>
> ** **
>
> On 3 July 2011 00:29, Root, Paul <Paul.Root at qwest.com> wrote:****
>
> Have you tried using the test program to see how it acts for the failure?*
> ***
>
>  ****
>
> /usr/lib64/xymon/server/bin/hobbitd_alert --test myhost procs
> --duration=500 |grep -v Failed****
>
>  ****
>
> Paul Root    - Engineer III  - Qwest is becoming CenturyLink****
>
>  ****
>
> *From:* Heather Keen [mailto:keenha at googlemail.com]
> *Sent:* Saturday, July 02, 2011 12:51 PM
> *To:* Root, Paul
> *Cc:* xymon at xymon.com
> *Subject:* Re: [Xymon] GROUPs and recovery alerts****
>
>  ****
>
> Yeah, I tried that too. No joy.****
>
> On 1 July 2011 19:59, Root, Paul <Paul.Root at qwest.com> wrote:****
>
> I generally put the RECOVERED on the mail line.****
>
>  ****
>
>  ****
>
> Paul Root    - Engineer III  - Qwest is becoming CenturyLink****
>
>  ****
>
> *From:* xymon-bounces at xymon.com [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] *On
> Behalf Of *Heather Keen
> *Sent:* Friday, July 01, 2011 11:47 AM
> *To:* xymon at xymon.com
> *Subject:* [Xymon] GROUPs and recovery alerts****
>
>  ****
>
> Hi,****
>
>  ****
>
> I want to be able to group servers so that alerts for one bunch of servers
> go to one group of people, and another group of servesr to another group of
> people.****
>
>  ****
>
> I used the following config -****
>
>  ****
>
> analysis.cfg:****
>
> HOST=myhost.mydomain.com GROUP=mygroup****
>
>      PROC blah****
>
>      PROC blahblah****
>
>      DISK ....etc****
>
>  ****
>
> alerts.cfg:****
>
> GROUP=mygroup NOTICE RECOVERED COLOR=red****
>
>         MAIL me at mydomain.com REPEAT=15****
>
>  ****
>
>  ****
>
> Now, I tested this by stopping one of the PROCs listed, and I successfully
> received the alert e-mail.  However, when I restarted that process to clear
> the alert, the status goes green but I do not receive any recovery message.
> ****
>
>  ****
>
> I also tried just having the GROUP defined against each individual PROC
> line (rather than against the HOST), but that didn't result in a recovery
> message either.****
>
>  ****
>
> Am I doing something wrong, or is this a bug?****
>
>  ****
>
> I can provide the debug output from the alert process if required.****
>
>  ****
>
> Cheers,****
>
> Heather****
>
>  ****
>  ------------------------------
>
> This communication is the property of Qwest and may contain confidential or
> privileged information. Unauthorized use of this communication is strictly
> prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this communication
> in error, please immediately notify the sender by reply e-mail and destroy
> all copies of the communication and any attachments.****
>
>  ****
>
> ** **
>  ------------------------------
>
> This communication is the property of Qwest and may contain confidential or
> privileged information. Unauthorized use of this communication is strictly
> prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this communication
> in error, please immediately notify the sender by reply e-mail and destroy
> all copies of the communication and any attachments.****
>
> ** **
>
> ------------------------------
> This communication is the property of Qwest and may contain confidential or
> privileged information. Unauthorized use of this communication is strictly
> prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this communication
> in error, please immediately notify the sender by reply e-mail and destroy
> all copies of the communication and any attachments.
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.xymon.com/pipermail/xymon/attachments/20110704/48120290/attachment.html>


More information about the Xymon mailing list