[hobbit] Alert Rules - DURATION not working

[David Gore]

Tom,

No, I haven't found a solution.  I was hoping Henrik might find 
something.  Without a doubt we can launch rules every time WITHOUT a 
DURATION.

One of my co-workers has put in a script that launches everytime we get 
an alert and just waits for 15 minutes before it sends out a page/email 
unless of course it recovered.

Let me know, if you find out anything yourself Tom.  It is always 
possible we have something configured wrong.  I am running Hobbit on 
Solaris 9, if it matters.  I also chose not to monitor any 's' (secure) 
services like https during setup.

David Gore (v965-3670)
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Tom Georgoulias wrote:
> David Gore wrote:
> 
>> So it's like nothing happens afterwards?  Hopefully, I got all the
>> relevant parts of the log file. I didn't want the posting to long.  Any
>> ideas?
> 
> 
> Have you made any progress on this?  I can't get the DURATION variable 
> to work either, and this time around I'm sure a typo is not the reason 
> for not getting an alert email.
> 
> Here's what I've done and what I see:
> 
> I added the --debug switch to hobbitd_alert in hobbitlaunch.cfg:
> 
> CMD hobbitd_channel --channel=page --log=$BBSERVERLOGS/page.log 
> hobbitd_alert --debug
> 
> My rule from hobbit-alerts.cfg.
> 
> HOST=$FOUND_SYS
>         MAIL broken at nandomedia.com SERVICE=procs COLOR=red DURATION>5 
> REPEAT=5
> 
> After I add this rule, I restart hobbit.  I read on the list that 
> restarting isn't necessary, but it has been my experience that changes 
> made to hobbit-alerts.cfg do not always get put into effect unless 
> hobbit is restarted.
> 
> Excerpts from page.log:
> 
> (note:  I replaced a valid IP address with 0s in the 3rd field of the 
> @@page line of this excerpt)
> 
> 2005-02-02 08:11:12 hobbitd_alert: Got message 4 
> @@page#4|1107349872.146928|0.0.0.0|foundry01.nandomedia.com|procs|0.0.0.0|1107351672|red|red|1107227163|web6|315344 
> 
> 2005-02-02 08:11:12 Got page message from foundry01.nandomedia.com:procs
> 2005-02-02 08:11:12 Alert status changed from 0 to 1
> 2005-02-02 08:11:12 criteriamatch foundry01.nandomedia.com:procs 
> %(foundry.*).nandomedia.com:(NULL):(NULL)
> 2005-02-02 08:11:12 pcre_exec returned 2
> 2005-02-02 08:11:12 Checking default color setting 70 against 5 gives 1
> 2005-02-02 08:11:12 Found a first matching rule
> 2005-02-02 08:11:12 criteriamatch foundry01.nandomedia.com:procs 
> (NULL):(NULL):procs
> 2005-02-02 08:11:12 failed minduration 0<300
> 
> So it looks like the duration variable was checked, which is good.  The 
> next time I see this server in the page.log, the min duration isn't 
> checked.
> 
> 2005-02-02 08:16:12 hobbitd_alert: Got message 16 
> @@page#16|1107350172.517352|0.0.0.0|foundry01.nandomedia.com|procs|0.0.0.0|1107351972|red|red|1107227163|web6|315344 
> 
> 2005-02-02 08:16:12 Got page message from foundry01.nandomedia.com:procs
> 2005-02-02 08:16:12 0 alerts to go
> 2005-02-02 08:17:12 0 alerts to go
> 
> This message will repeat from now on, varying only in the message count 
> #, but alerts are not sent out:
> 
> -bash-2.05b$ grep foundry data/acks/notifications.log
> -bash-2.05b$
> 
> I dunno what else to investigate at this point.
> 
> Tom
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