[Xymon] alert collectionsif I understand

Thu Jun 16 17:39:43 CEST 2011

Thanks for the responses guys. 
I am making things different now, but I'm not sure that it is progress. 

so now, my alerts.cfg only has the entries listed below. 
I am not certain of how to designate a default alert. 

But now, when I run a test, I don't get ANY email notices sent. 
So, I believe I am excluding the subpages correctly, which is good for me. 

But I am not generating any alerts when my 'System' page turns red. 
I think it is because I have nothing but subpages on each of my 'System' pages. 

Do you have any advice on generating alerts from a page like that ? 
I want to get an alert from my "b16Env1" subpage (see the hosts snippet below). 

thanks! 

Here is my alerts.cfg file 
------------------------------------------ 
PAGE=ovmEnvironments/b16Env1 COLOR=red RECOVERED 
PAGE=ovmEnvironments/b16Env1/b16Env1Hypers COLOR=red RECOVERED 
PAGE=ovmEnvironments/b17Env1/b16Env1Hosts COLOR=red RECOVERED 
PAGE=ovmEnvironments/b16Env1/b16Env1Admin COLOR=red RECOVERED 
PAGE=ovmEnvironments/b16Env1/b16Env1Apps/b16Env1IcApps COLOR=red RECOVERED 
PAGE=ovmEnvironments/b16Env1/b16Env1Apps/b16Env1TechApps COLOR=red RECOVERED 
PAGE=ovmEnvironments COLOR=red RECOVERED 

MAIL xymon at mycompany.com REPEAT=5 
EXPAGE=ovmEnvironments/b16Env1/b16Env1Apps/b16Env1IcApps 
EXPAGE=ovmEnvironments/b16Env1/b16Env1Apps/b16Env1TechApps 
#------------------- 

and here is the test output from sending one http error from a low-level subpage 
#------------------- 
2011-06-16 08:18:51 Using default environment file /home/gjsimpso/xymon/xymonServer/server/etc/xymonserver.cfg 
00026390 2011-06-16 08:18:51 send_alert v_TS_ODSM:http state Paging 
00026390 2011-06-16 08:18:51 Matching host:service:page 'v_TS_ODSM:http:ovmEnvironments/b16Env1/b16Env1Apps/b16Env1TechApps' against rule line 66 
00026390 2011-06-16 08:18:51 Failed 'PAGE=ovmEnvironments/b16Env1/b16Env1Apps/b16Env1FSApps COLOR=red RECOVERED' (pagename not in include list) 
00026390 2011-06-16 08:18:51 Matching host:service:page 'v_TS_ODSM:http:ovmEnvironments/b16Env1/b16Env1Apps/b16Env1TechApps' against rule line 67 
00026390 2011-06-16 08:18:51 Failed 'PAGE=ovmEnvironments/b16Env1/b16Env1Apps/b16Env1CrmApps COLOR=red RECOVERED' (pagename not in include list) 
00026390 2011-06-16 08:18:51 Matching host:service:page 'v_TS_ODSM:http:ovmEnvironments/b16Env1/b16Env1Apps/b16Env1TechApps' against rule line 68 
00026390 2011-06-16 08:18:51 Failed 'PAGE=ovmEnvironments/b16Env1/b16Env1Apps/b16Env1FinsApps COLOR=red RECOVERED' (pagename not in include list) 
00026390 2011-06-16 08:18:51 Matching host:service:page 'v_TS_ODSM:http:ovmEnvironments/b16Env1/b16Env1Apps/b16Env1TechApps' against rule line 69 
00026390 2011-06-16 08:18:51 Failed 'PAGE=ovmEnvironments/b16Env1/b16Env1Apps/b16Env1HcmApps COLOR=red RECOVERED' (pagename not in include list) 
00026390 2011-06-16 08:18:51 Matching host:service:page 'v_TS_ODSM:http:ovmEnvironments/b16Env1/b16Env1Apps/b16Env1TechApps' against rule line 70 
00026390 2011-06-16 08:18:51 Failed 'PAGE=ovmEnvironments/b16Env1/b16Env1Apps/b16Env1ScmApps COLOR=red RECOVERED' (pagename not in include list) 
00026390 2011-06-16 08:18:51 Matching host:service:page 'v_TS_ODSM:http:ovmEnvironments/b16Env1/b16Env1Apps/b16Env1TechApps' against rule line 71 
00026390 2011-06-16 08:18:51 Failed 'PAGE=ovmEnvironments/b16Env1/b16Env1Apps/b16Env1IcApps COLOR=red RECOVERED' (pagename not in include list) 
00026390 2011-06-16 08:18:51 Matching host:service:page 'v_TS_ODSM:http:ovmEnvironments/b16Env1/b16Env1Apps/b16Env1TechApps' against rule line 72 
00026390 2011-06-16 08:18:51 *** Match with 'PAGE=ovmEnvironments/b16Env1/b16Env1Apps/b16Env1TechApps COLOR=red RECOVERED' *** 

I have not changed my hosts.cfg file (this is a snippet) 
#------------------- 
page ovmEnvironments OVMEnvironments 
title OVM Environments 

################################################################################################## 
# Env1 starts here 
################################################################################################## 
subpage b16Env1 B16Env1 
title B16 Env1 
subparent b16Env1 b16Env1Hypers Hypervisors 
title B16 Env1 Hypervisors group-compress Hypervisors 
0.0.0.6 appohs-crm-machine06 
0.0.0.7 authohs-crm-machine07 
...

subparent b16Env1 b16Env1Hosts Hosts 
title B16 Env1 Hosts group-compress OVM Hosts 
0.0.0.8 v_resourceWebgate_machine08 
0.0.0.9 v_challengWebgate_machine09 
...

subparent b16Env1 b16Env1Admin Weblogic Admin/EM Pages 
title B16 Env1 Weblogic Administration group-compress All Admin Consoles 
0.0.0.91 v_BI_ADMIN # http://user:pswd@machine:port/console 
0.0.0.90 v_CRM_ADMIN # http://user:pswd@machine:port/console 
...

################################################################################################## 
# Env2 starts here 
################################################################################################## 
subpage b16Env2 B16Env2 
title B16 Env2 
... 

-- 
Greg 

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Scot Kreienkamp" <SKreien at la-z-boy.com> 
To: kconnell at ryerson.ca, gsimpson at comcast.net, xymon-bounces at xymon.com, "Xymon Email List" <xymon at xymon.com> 
Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2011 6:45:24 AM 
Subject: RE: [Xymon] alert collectionsif I understand 

I just removed the default alert section. That way I only get notified 
for systems/pages that I specifically call out in the alerts.cfg file. 

Scot Kreienkamp 

-----Original Message----- 
From: xymon-bounces at xymon.com [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf 
Of kconnell at ryerson.ca 
Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2011 7:52 AM 
To: gsimpson at comcast.net; xymon-bounces at xymon.com; Xymon Email List 
Subject: Re: [Xymon] alert collectionsif I understand 

We currently monitor (ping) our AP's and it would really suck to get 
over 1000 emails if/when something goes down, so I exclude them as 
follows: 

You can exclude pages from you alerts in two ways: 

1.) above all other alerts add: 
PAGE=<yourpage/yoursubpage> 
Add nothing for action, and that's it.

2.) On your bottom (default) alert action append the following: 
EXPAGE=<yourpage/yoursubpage> 

Ken Connell 
Intermediate Network Engineer 
Computer & Communication Services 
Ryerson University 
350 Victoria St 
RM AB50 
Toronto, Ont 
M5B 2K3 
416-979-5000 x6709 

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