[hobbit] only alert if X number of hosts are already in error

[Winn Beutler]

I would like to try the combotest but am not sure what needs to be done besides defining a combotest in combotest.cfg.  I have looked through the docs but cant find a complete example.

Once there is a test named 'Pool1.http' defined in combotest.cfg, what needs to be present in bb-hosts and hobbit-alerts.cfg to receive an email?
Many thanks for the help.  Everyone here is impressed with HOBBIT!
Winn

-----Original Message-----
From: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk]
Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2005 3:16 PM
To: hobbit at hswn.dk
Subject: Re: [hobbit] only alert if X number of hosts are already in
error

E.g. if you're monitoring http on 5 hosts, you could define a
combination test like this:

Pool1.http=(hostA.http+hostB.http+hostC.http+hostD.http+hostE.http)>3

That would give you a red alert if 3 or fewer hosts in the pool were
green. And you could then trigger an alert based on that test result.

Regards,
Henrik

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