[hobbit] Suitability for bb replacement in large enterprise

[Henrik Størner]

In <493DA5AF.1080704 at tmsusa.com> J Sloan <joe at tmsusa.com> writes:

>Yes, it's very simple and straightforward: send out an snmp trap based
>on an event, per the bbwarnrules.cfg, just like the email alerts. If
>hobbit can be made to do that, one of the two key requirements would be
>met, and only the failover behaviour would still need to be resolved.

In hobbit-alerts.cfg you'd have something like

    HOST=* TEST=disk
        SCRIPT /usr/local/bin/trapmessage 0

Then your /usr/local/bin/trapmessage would do the trap-sending.
E.g. using Net-SNMP tools and the defaults from BB's bbwarnsetup.cfg:
 
    #!/bin/sh

    OID="enterprises.7058"    # 7058 is the Big Brother OID
    SNMPSTATION="10.3.2.1"    # IP of your monitoring system

    # BB maps a service to a numeric trapcode. See the
    # 'trapcodes' definition in bbwarnsetup.cfg
    # Add those you use here.
    case "$BBSVCNAME" in
      "disk") 
          TRAPCODE="2"
	  ;;
      "cpu")
          TRAPCODE="4"
	  ;;
    esac
    # ... and adds 1 if the status has recovered
    if test "$RECOVERED" = "1"
    then
       TRAPCODE=`expr $TRAPCODE + 1`
    fi

    snmptrap -v1 -c public $SNMPSTATION $OID \
       $BBHOSTNAME 6 $TRAPCODE '' $OID s "$BBALPHAMSG"

    exit 0


Regards,
Henrik