[hobbit] pagetype: HOST alerting feature?

[Henrik Stoerner]

On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 06:12:41PM -0800, Bruce Lysik wrote:  

> I have some hostsA which all nfs mount from hostB.  hostB dies.  Now
>  when hostsA bb clients run its disk check, the df hangs, which
>  causes all those local bb checks to purple in hobbit.  hobbit
>  proceeds to send out five alerts per host (one for each local
>  purple). 

OK, that's pretty annoying.

>  In the past, bigbrother would only send out one alert per
>  group of purples.  Is there any way to roll-up alerts like this?

Did BB really have this ? I didn't know that.

Hobbit doesn't support it - sorry. I think it might be worthwhile to
look at doing "alert-merging" more generally, e.g. so you'll get
all alerts for a given recipient merged into one message based on some
criteria. 

But that's for a future version.


Henrik