[hobbit] stale alerts

[Josh Luthman]

This has never happened to me - are the two of you using the 4.2.0 release?

Josh

On 11/14/07, Gore, David W (David) <david.gore at verizonbusiness.com> wrote:
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Gary Baluha [mailto:gumby3203 at gmail.com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2007 16:30
> > To: hobbit at hswn.dk
> > Subject: Re: [hobbit] stale alerts
> >
> > Order of events:
> > 1am: alert went yellow, email was sent out
> > 1:15am: alert recovered
> > 2am, and each additional hour: email was sent out saying
> > alert was yellow (it was actually showing green)
> > 10:30a: I restart Hobbit and get the "stale alert" message,
> > and it finally stops sending alerts.  Recovery email was
> > never sent out, even though it is in the alert rules.
> >
> > On Nov 14, 2007 11:22 AM, Josh Luthman
> > <josh at imaginenetworksllc.com> wrote:
> > > You're saying it went yellow, then green.  The log tells
> > you it sent
> > > an alert when it was yellow.
> > >
> > > I'm not sure I'm seeing the problem here =/  It sent an alert first
> > > when it was yellow and another when it switch to green to
> > inform you
> > > it recovered, correct?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On 11/14/07, Gary Baluha <gumby3203 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > Yes, the alert history shows it went yellow and then 5
> > minutes later
> > > > recovered.  The web page is showing everything correct.  However,
> > > > when I check the notifications.log file, I can see that
> > it was still
> > > > sending alerts about it being yellow, even though it was
> > definitely
> > > > green.
> > > >
> > > > On Nov 14, 2007 10:38 AM, Josh Luthman
> > <josh at imaginenetworksllc.com>
> > > wrote:
> > > > > Click on it the host's test and click on history - was
> > red at all?
> > > > >
> > > > > Are the WWW pages updating?  Look in the top right
> > corner of the
> > > > > page
> > > once
> > > > > you click on the host's test link.
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >  On 11/14/07, Gary Baluha < gumby3203 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I noticed this morning that our Hobbit server was sending out
> > > > > > alerts for the process check for a machine that was actually
> > > > > > shown as green on the hobbit  web page.  I checked on the
> > > > > > monitored machine, and the alert was indeed green, yet the
> > > > > > server was still sending out emails as though it were in a
> > > > > > yellow state.  I restarted the Hobbit client on the monitored
> > > > > > machine, and then restarted the Hobbit server on the server.
> > > > > > After doing this, I noticed the following in the page.log
> > > > > > file:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > 2007-11-14 10:26:13 Stale alert for host-name:procs dropped
> > > > > >
> > > > > > (I changed the actual host name to "host-name" to protect the
> > > innocent)
> > > > > > What exactly does this mean?  Before I restarted the Hobbit
> > > > > > server process, I manually edited the alert.chk temp file and
> > > > > > removed the erroneous alert, but that didn't correct the
> > > > > > problem.  It was only after I restarted the Hobbit
> > server process that it cleared the alert.
> > > > > > Is this a bug in the 4.2.0 code, or is there something else
> > > > > > going on here?
> >
>
> Gary,
>
> We get those too, along with leftover semaphores and shared memory
> segments when we stop the hobbit server.  The snapshot, seems much
> better, but with tooltips and host descriptions pushing our display to
> the far right of the screen we cannot use it right now.
>
> ~David
>
> Ps. Just to let you know it's not just your setup.
>
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