[hobbit] Avoid alarm when hobbitd server lost connection

[Hubbard, Greg L]

I would use router tags, make sure you are pinging the switch, and then
put the switch as the first hop in your router path.

As for the flood of emails when connections are restored -- this is a
Hobbit "feature" at present if you have "recovery" messages enabled --
Hobbit will send recovery messages regardless of whether or not it send
a "problem" message.  In a large installation, this could add up to a
lot of emails. 

-----Original Message-----
From: Rodolfo Pilas [mailto:rodolfo at pilas.net] 
Sent: Friday, July 20, 2007 8:49 AM
To: hobbit at hswn.dk
Subject: [hobbit] Avoid alarm when hobbitd server lost connection

I have a hobbitd server that monitor several other servers (hosts)

hobbitd ------- server0
        |------ server1
	|------ server2
	|------ ...
	'------ serverN

I had an issue with the hobbit server switch and its lost conn with all
'serverN' but not with 'localhost'.  As soon as switch restore
connection I receive e-mail alarms for all monitors.

What is the proper way to avoid alarms when hobbitd lost all remote
conns? (and not with localhost) (two hobbitd servers?) ("router" or
"depends" tags?)

Thank you
Rodolfo Pilas