[hobbit] stop receiving notice alerts

Asif Iqbal iqbala-hobbit at qwestip.net
Wed Feb 22 20:21:04 CET 2006


I am guessing ever since I started using the PAGE variable in my
hobbit-alerts.cfg file I have been seeing more disable action failing to
generate an alert notification

Not sure if there is a way to debug the failure.

On Tue, Feb 14, 2006 at 05:55:18PM, Asif Iqbal wrote:
> I am still having this issue. I see the info and alert page shows that
> the disable has been done. But I do not NOTICE email. According to the
> info page I should receive notification alerts. Also I do not see any
> entry in the acknowledgement page either. I did not see any email
> generated related to this notice either. Also no entry for troubled hosts in
> the enadis.log or notification log. It works for other hosts. The
> following log files from previous emails are still true as well.
> 
> This is the part that is responsible for sending NOTICE
> 
> HOST=%(.*)
>         MAIL myemail at here.com SYSTEMS NOTICE NOALERT
> 
> Again only few hosts that are having trouble. Rest of them when disabled
> generates an email and I receive it fine.
> 
> Should this be posted as bug or there is some debug trick I can follow
> to find the real issue?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 07:03:12PM, Asif Iqbal wrote:
> > Hi All
> > 
> > I just realized that we are not receiving NOTICE alerts anymore when disable or
> > enable host.service through the web.
> > 
> > tail -10 /var/log/hobbit/enadis.log. I have always seen them but not
> > showing the host whose service I disabled and then enabled. 
> > 
> > 2005-11-30 07:52:15 Could not remove disable-file '/export/home/hobbit/data/disabled/maskit,inet,here,net.scanmsg':No such file or directory
> > 2005-11-30 07:52:15 Could not remove disable-file '/export/home/hobbit/data/disabled/maskit,inet,here,net.top':No
> > such file or directory
> > 2005-11-30 07:52:15 Could not remove disable-file '/export/home/hobbit/data/disabled/maskit,inet,here,net.netinfo':No
> > such file or directory
> > 
> > Also not receiving any email related to NOTICE.
> > 
> > ./bin/bbcmd hobbitd_alert --dump-config
> > 
> > [..]
> > HOST=%(.*)
> >         MAIL groupemail at here.net FORMAT=TEXT REPEAT=30 NOTICE NOALERT
> > 
> > Version:
> > 
> > ./bin/bbgen --version
> > bbgen version 4.1.2
> > 
> > I do not think I made any recent changes. 
> > 
> > Thanks
> > 
> 

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