[hobbit] DURATION rules for specific host alerts

[Daniel Bourque]

Why would you not want the status to change ? Such a history log is 
great for troubleshooting.

if you don't want to be notified about it, just use this in the 
hobbit-alerts.cfg

Page=x
    IGNORE HOST=foo SERVICE=cpu COLOR=red DURATION<5m

if you don't want it to change the status color on the parent pages , 
then use NOPROPYELLOW:cpu in the bb-hosts file.

if you REALLY don't want it to change status, increase the LOAD numbers 
in the hobbit-clients.cfg file.

-Dan

Gary Baluha wrote:

> Is there a [non-messy] way to set a DURATION rule for a specific host 
> alert?  Basically, what I'm thinking of is something like this:
>
> In hobbit-clients.cfg
> HOST=myhost
>     LOAD 20 30 DURATION>5m
>
> The effect being, the status of the "myhost" cpu alert will only 
> change to yellow/red if the load is above the appropriate threshold 
> for more than 5 minutes.
>
> There are a few hosts that occasionally will spike above the cpu load 
> thresholds, but only for a few minutes (usually around 5 min at most), 
> and then recover on its own.  However, I don't want to raise the 
> thresholds, because a sustained load (more than 10 minutes) at this 
> level _is_ actually a critical event.  It's just not critical if it is 
> just a momentary spike.
>
> My specific example is with cpu load, but it could be for other things 
> too, such as process counts, memory, or even in some situations, disk 
> space.

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