[hobbit] Alering on log file entries

[Dominique Frise]

Henrik Storner wrote:
> In <446C0A01.7030900 at unil.ch> Dominique Frise <Dominique.Frise at unil.ch> writes:
> 
> 
>>Wild, Phil wrote:
>>
>>>Hello all,
>>> 
>>>I have a requirement to monitor a number of log files on one system and 
>>>to page different people depending on what it sees in the different 
>>>files. From what I can tell, this functionality is not available. Am I 
>>>wrong here?
>>> 
>>>My thoughts on setting this up would be to clone and modify the existing 
>>>bb-msgs feeder script to accept a different config file and report as a 
>>>different test and then through hobbit, set up alerts to the different 
>>>group for the additional test.
>>> 
>>>Is this a sound approach or is there a better way?
> 
> 
>>We have exactely same requirements.
> 
> 
>>We did clone bb-msgs when we were using Big Brother and have not yet integrated 
>>this feature on our Hobbit system.
>>I don't think there is a better to this at the moment but maybe Henrik could 
>>think about this ;-)
> 
> 
> 
> I have been thinking about this, actually :-) It is one case of several where 
> it would be useful to direct alerts triggered by one status to different people.
> Think disk-alerts, or processes, or web applications.
> 
> This was discussed briefly back in November, see the thread starting with
> http://www.hswn.dk/hobbiton/2005/11/msg00159.html
> 
> Let me just say that it is being worked on.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Henrik
> 
Henrik,

Is it going to be integrated in 4.2?


Dominique
UNIL - University of Lausanne