[hobbit] RE: Hobbit Emails empty

[Josh Luthman]

As I said above I don't know what the alerts send me as far as a body.
Could you outline what needs done for the content to be included in the
alerts?  You need to have FQDNs and what checked?

Thanks for the above post!

On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 4:49 PM, Kevin Doyle <kdoyle at peak5.com> wrote:

>  Sure thing… this may be documented but I found it so quickly I hadn't
> even gone ot the man pages yet! J
>
>
>
> Here is the relevant section of hobbitserver.cfg
>
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> Originally BBWEBHOST had http://$BBSERVERWWWNAME<http://$bbserverwwwname/>I changed it to https://and the emails had the correct link.
>
>
>
> # Specific to this host
>
> BBOSTYPE="$BBSERVEROS"          # Hosttype (operating system). Not used by
> server-side, but clients use this.
>
> MACHINEDOTS="$BBSERVERHOSTNAME" # This systems hostname
>
> MACHINEADDR="$BBSERVERIP"       # This systems IP-address
>
>
>
> # URL's generated/used by bbgen
>
> BBWEBHOST="https://$BBSERVERWWWNAME"            # Just the host part of
> the URL - http://www.foo.com
>
> BBWEBHOSTURL="$BBWEBHOST$BBSERVERWWWURL"        # Prefix for all static
> Hobbit pages - http://www.foo.com/bb
>
> BBWEBHTMLLOGS="$BBWEBHOSTURL/html"              # Prefix for the Hobbit
> HTML logs (only if BBLOGSTATUS=STATIC)
>
>
>  ------------------------------
>
> *From:* Josh Luthman [mailto:josh at imaginenetworksllc.com]
> *Sent:* Wednesday, May 14, 2008 2:33 PM
> *To:* hobbit at hswn.dk
>
> *Subject:* Re: [hobbit] RE: Hobbit Emails empty
>
>
>
> Kevin,
>
> Would you mind posting the configuration change you made here, please?  It
> makes it nice for those who read over the mailing list logs in the future.
>
> Josh
>
> On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 4:27 PM, Kevin Doyle <kdoyle at peak5.com> wrote:
>
> Nevermind… got that one too. A change in the hobbitserver.cfg file and I am
> all set
>
>
>
> Thanks everybody!
>
>
>  ------------------------------
>
> *From:* Kevin Doyle [mailto:kdoyle at peak5.com]
> *Sent:* Wednesday, May 14, 2008 2:13 PM
> *To:* hobbit at hswn.dk
>
>
> *Subject:* RE: [hobbit] RE: Hobbit Emails empty
>
>
>
> Ok, after some trial and error, I figured this out. Hobbit will only get
> the full message from the client if you are using FQDN in bb-hosts and have
> the check box on the client checked.
>
>
>
> Now is there a way to change the http link that is sent out in the message?
> My server uses https rather than http.
>
>
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>
> *From:* Kevin Doyle [mailto:kdoyle at peak5.com]
> *Sent:* Wednesday, May 14, 2008 11:29 AM
> *To:* hobbit at hswn.dk
> *Subject:* RE: [hobbit] RE: Hobbit Emails empty
>
>
>
> So where would I look to see what message is being logged by the client? It
> appears this is not being sent to sendmail?
>
>
>  ------------------------------
>
> *From:* Lars Ebeling [mailto:lars.ebeling at leopg9.no-ip.org]
> *Sent:* Wednesday, May 14, 2008 11:12 AM
> *To:* hobbit at hswn.dk
> *Subject:* Re: [hobbit] RE: Hobbit Emails empty
>
>
>
> I am also using bbclient 1.08d without any problems
>
>
>
> Lars
>
>  ----- Original Message -----
>
> *From:* Josh Luthman <josh at imaginenetworksllc.com>
>
> *To:* hobbit at hswn.dk
>
> *Sent:* Wednesday, May 14, 2008 6:45 PM
>
> *Subject:* Re: [hobbit] RE: Hobbit Emails empty
>
>
>
> Thinking about it I am using the Windows BB client too!  It is on one
> server that I normally just cuss and disable the tests for, but it is
> reporting =)
>
> On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 12:41 PM, Hubbard, Greg L <greg.hubbard at eds.com>
> wrote:
>
> I have no problems with the Windows BB client -- I think Henrik did an
> excellent job with "backwards" compatibility.
>
>
>
> GLH
>
>
>  ------------------------------
>
> *From:* Galen Johnson [mailto:Galen.Johnson at sas.com]
> *Sent:* Wednesday, May 14, 2008 11:34 AM
>
>
> *To:* hobbit at hswn.dk
> *Subject:* RE: [hobbit] RE: Hobbit Emails empty
>
>
>
> 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 COLOR=RED REPEAT=20 RECOVERED
>
> Josh
>
> On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 10:35 AM, Kevin Doyle <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 FORMAT=TEXT COLOR=RED REPEAT=20 RECOVERED
>
>
>
> #      MAIL 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'
> *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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> --
> Josh Luthman
> Office: 937-552-2340
> Direct: 937-552-2343
> 1100 Wayne St
> Suite 1337
> Troy, OH 45373
>
> Those who don't understand UNIX are condemned to reinvent it, poorly.
> --- Henry Spencer
>
>
>
>
> --
> Josh Luthman
> Office: 937-552-2340
> Direct: 937-552-2343
> 1100 Wayne St
> Suite 1337
> Troy, OH 45373
>
> Those who don't understand UNIX are condemned to reinvent it, poorly.
> --- Henry Spencer
>



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