[hobbit] RE: Hobbit Emails empty

Benjamin P. August baugust at stanford.edu
Wed May 14 18:42:09 CEST 2008


I haven't had any troubles with BBNT and Hobbit with respect to  
paging. But then, I can't remember the last time BBNT has had to page  
me on something...

-- 
--Ben
Benjamin P. August
System Administrator - VPUE
Stanford University


Quoting Galen Johnson <Galen.Johnson at sas.com>:

> I don't think hobbit plays well with the BB windows client (I don't   
> recal where I saw this).  Have you tried putting BBWin on one of the  
>  servers to see if that gives you any output?
>
> =G=
>
> From: Kevin Doyle [mailto:kdoyle at peak5.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2008 11:00 AM
> To: hobbit at hswn.dk
> Subject: RE: [hobbit] RE: Hobbit Emails empty
>
> Some further information. My clients (mostly Windows2003 servers are  
>  running the Big Brother client, version 1-08d
>
> ________________________________
> From: Josh Luthman [mailto:josh at imaginenetworksllc.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2008 8:47 AM
> To: hobbit at hswn.dk
> Subject: Re: [hobbit] RE: Hobbit Emails empty
>
> Kevin,
>
> Try this:
>
> HOST=*
>
>      MAIL kdoyle (at) peak5.com<http://peak5.com/> COLOR=RED   
> REPEAT=20 RECOVERED
> Josh
> On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 10:35 AM, Kevin Doyle   
> <kdoyle at peak5.com<mailto:kdoyle at peak5.com>> wrote:
>
> Yes here is the relevant line in my hobbit-alerts.cfg
>
>
>
> #
>
> # The hobbit-alerts.cfg file controls who receives alerts
>
> # when a status in the BB system goes into a critical
>
> # state (usually: red, yellow or purple).
>
> #
>
> # This file is made up from RULES and RECIPIENTS.
>
> #
>
> # A RULE is a filter made from the PAGE where a host
>
> # is located in BB; the HOST name, the SERVICE name,
>
> # the COLOR of the status, the TIME of day, and the
>
> # DURATION of the event.
>
> #
>
> # A RECIPIENT can be a MAIL address, or a SCRIPT.
>
> #
>
> # Recipients can also have rules associated with them,
>
> # that modify the rules for a single recipient, e.g.
>
> # you can define a rule for alerting, then add an
>
> # extra criteria e.g. so a single recipient does not get
>
> # alerted until after 20 minutes.
>
> #
>
> # A sample rule:
>
>
>
> HOST=* Color=red
>
>      MAIL kdoyle (at) peak5.com<http://peak5.com> FORMAT=TEXT   
> COLOR=RED REPEAT=20 RECOVERED
>
>
>
> #      MAIL cio at foo.com<mailto:cio at foo.com> DURATION>60 COLOR=red
>
> #      SCRIPT /usr/local/bin/sendsms 1234567890 FORMAT=SMS
>
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>
> Can you share your ~/server/etc/hobbit-alerts.cfg please?
>
>
>
>
>
> ________________________________
>
> From: Kevin Doyle
> Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2008 1:12 PM
> To: 'hobbit at hswn.dk<mailto:hobbit at hswn.dk>'
> Subject: Hobbit Emails empty
>
>
>
> I have a test Hobbit server running on CentOS 5.0 I am running   
> Hobbit 4.1.2p2 and everything appears to be fuinctioning correct   
> except alerting. When I trigger an alert, I get an email with only a  
>  subject and no body. I expected to get some information about the   
> alert and the link to the monitored device. I am sure I am missing   
> something fairly simple but I am new to Linux and Hobbit.
>
>
>
> Any Ideas?
>
>
>
> Kevin P. Doyle
>
> Sr. Systems Administrator
>
> Peak5
>
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