[hobbit] recovered messages/SMS missing

[Dominique Frise]

Henrik Stoerner wrote:
> On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 11:16:00AM +0200, Dominique Frise wrote:
> 
>>We use the RECOVERED keyword for all recipients defined in 
>>hobbit-alerts.cfg.
>>
>>We noticed a problem for hosts where alerting for a given service is 
>>excluded during a certain time. When a problem occurs on the service -out 
>>of the exclusion time-, the yellow/red alarms get sent. When the problem is 
>>resolved though, there is no recovered confirmation message/SMS. This issue 
>>is not related to the amount of time the service was down.
>>
>>
>>Example configuration and logs:
>>
>>----hobbit-alerts.cfg----
>>...
>>...
>># Do not send anything for given service(s) during period of time
>>HOST=test3 SERVICE=http TIME=*:0305:0315
>>...
>>...
>># Rules by administrator
>>HOST=test3
>>MAIL test at example.com REPEAT=24h RECOVERED
>>SCRIPT /usr/local/sendsms 0123456789 COLOR=red FORMAT=SMS REPEAT=24h RECOVERED
> 
> 
> If I understand your configuration snippet correctly, then this is a 
> configuration error. You shouldn't have rules with no recipients, like 
> the first one you have shown here.
> 
> 
>>Is this a bug or a is something wrong with the exclusion specification?
> 
> 
> Your exclusion is wrong. It should be (notice the TIME setting):
> 
> HOST=test3 TIME=*:0315:0305
>    MAIL test at example.com REPEAT=24h RECOVERED
>    SCRIPT /usr/local/sendsms 0123456789 COLOR=red FORMAT=SMS REPEAT=24h RECOVERED
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Henrik
> 
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Thank you fo these explanations.

That means it is not possible to write simple rules for excluding alerts for a 
given service for all hosts (HOST=*) during a period of time?
Do we really have to write the same exclude/include rules for each host?


Dominique
UNIL - University of Lausanne