[hobbit] how can I receive alerts for every new trigger matched for 'LOG'

[Jerry Yu]

anybody?
I'd like to get confirmation, one way or the other,  Hobbit at its current
form won't work for this purpose, before I go down the road of custom
scripts and such..

On 11/28/06, Jerry Yu <jjj863 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> the LOG check clears itself after 30m, if it didn't see the offending
> entries again. If this 30m can be changed to 5m or 6m, then, I can get new
> offenders (as it will trigger status change for certain).
>
> On 11/28/06, Peter Welter <peter.welter at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Sounds a bit like a question I posted two weeks ago: Hobbit responds
> > on status-changes (green-.yellow->red->etc). You can make it detect
> > several issues, but when another issue comes up and the status itself
> > does not change, you will not be notified.
> >
> > Although the GROUP-keyword for DISK and PROC adds granularity, this is
> > not possible for LOG (yet?!) and although the GROUP-keyword is very
> > powerful, the above remains so this does not solve your problem.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Peter
> >
> > 2006/11/27, Jerry Yu <jjj863 at gmail.com>:
> > > hi, there,
> > > I have a LOG check for "error: #1" "error: #2" in a log file. We'd
> > like to
> > > receive email alerts for each every trigger matched, "%error: #" since
> > we
> > > needs to know the all the error # reported.
> > > Right now, it generates email alerts. but not for every new
> > triggers.  No
> > > alerts are generated for a newly matched trigger log entry if the
> > STATUS is
> > > red/yellow already.  In my thinking, if the LOG check itself can be
> > > RECOVERED after 5m (I believe the default is 30m), this ought work.
> > >
> > > Does anybody know how to change the default from 30m to 5m (for a
> > single
> > > check/test)?
> > > Any alternative/recommendations to get the desired results?  I
> > initially
> > > thought a 'creative' combination of 'REPEAT=5 DURATION<10' would do
> > it...
> >
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