[hobbit] Hobbit 4.0.4 released - Alert Script Issue

Henrik Stoerner henrik at hswn.dk
Wed Aug 17 07:36:52 CEST 2005


On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 04:56:59AM +0200, Peter Welter wrote:
> Hello Henrik,
> 
> Since I'm totally flabbergasted of Hobbit not running an external
> script anymore, there must be a simple explanation for it and I'm sure
> I'll have a few laughs afterwards :-/
> 
> Since Hobbit is very important to us, and I don't wanna rush into
> things (updating the entire server from 4.0.4 to the newest version),
> I will first try to make a hobbit-alert.cfg as small and simple as
> possible containing only the stuff needed. A test-alert-config, which
> contains one external script that will be run in a yellow condition
> and this script will sent an email. This should be a simple dummy-test
> that will check the entire Hobbit-alert-setup just to be sure.

You might want to add "--trace=/tmp/alerttrace.log" to the hobbitd_alert
command in hobbitlaunch.cfg. That will give you a closer watch on how
each alert is handled by the alert module.

Do the missing alerts show up in the notifications.log file ?


Regards,
Henrik




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