[hobbit] questions about hobbit-alerts.cfg and hobbit-clients.cfg

[Kip, D. - GDI/SNB]

The 'REPEAT=' needs to be in the 'SCRIPT' line, not the 'HOST' line.

Here's a part of my hobbit-alerts that works fine (though in this case they happen to be 'MAIL'...):

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HOST=*
        MAIL removed at for.privacy SERVICE=conn,disk COLOR=red TIME=*:0000:2400 EXPAGE=$EXPAGEUNIX REPEAT=1d  EXHOST=$EXHOSTSUNIX DURATION>6 

HOST=gbodb006
        MAIL removed at for.privacy SERVICE=omni COLOR=yellow,red FORMAT=TEXT TIME=W:1200:1800 REPEAT=1h

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-----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
Van: Gé Janssen [mailto:ge.janssen at gmail.com] 
Verzonden: maandag 9 maart 2009 22:49
Aan: hobbit at hswn.dk
Onderwerp: [hobbit] questions about hobbit-alerts.cfg and hobbit-clients.cfg

Hello,

Today, after a friend had problems with is apache, I was sending a sms every 5 minutes.

Unfortunately this is my private phone so 1 sms per hour seems acceptable.

My rule states: (as found in the example on the manpage)

HOST=venus SERVICE=* REPEAT=1h TIME=*:0800:2200 COLOR=red
        SCRIPT /usr/local/bin/sendsmshobbit.sh 31652345678 FORMAT=sms

HOST=www.linix.be SERVICE=* REPEAT=1h TIME=*:0800:2200 COLOR=red
        SCRIPT /usr/local/bin/sendsmshobbit.sh 324567890123  FORMAT=sms

HOST=home.nouwen.name SERVICE=* REPEAT=1h TIME=*:1000:2200 COLOR=red
        SCRIPT /usr/local/bin/sendsmshobbit.sh 31652345678  FORMAT=sms

HOST=www.jos.nouwen.name SERVICE=* REPEAT=1h TIME=*:1000:2200 COLOR=red
        SCRIPT /usr/local/bin/sendsmshobbit.sh 31652345678  FORMAT=sms

my logfile states:
2009-03-09 18:46:07 Ignored unknown/unexpected token 'REPEAT=1h' at line 120
2009-03-09 18:46:07 Ignored unknown/unexpected token 'REPEAT=1h' at line 123
2009-03-09 18:46:07 Ignored unknown/unexpected token 'REPEAT=1h' at line 126
2009-03-09 18:46:07 Ignored unknown/unexpected token 'REPEAT=1h' at line 129


Clearly my solution was the "repeat" field. According to the internal documentation, this should be in mintes:

#    REPEAT    - How often an alert gets repeated, in minutes.
The html manpage:
REPEAT    How often an alert gets repeated. As with the DURATION 
setting, this is in minutes unless explicitly modified with 'm', 'h', 'd'.

Ok, if this is what we need. In minutes:

HOST=venus SERVICE=* REPEAT=60 TIME=*:0800:2200 COLOR=red
        SCRIPT /usr/local/bin/sendsmshobbit.sh 31652345678 FORMAT=sms


My logfile states

/usr/local/bin/sendsms $RCPT "$BBALPHAMSG"
+ /usr/local/bin/sendsms 31652345678 'home.nouwen.name:conn red [587147'
2009-03-09 21:49:17 Ignored unknown/unexpected token 'REPEAT=60' at line 120
2009-03-09 21:49:17 Ignored unknown/unexpected token 'REPEAT=60' at line 123
2009-03-09 21:49:17 Ignored unknown/unexpected token 'REPEAT=60' at line 126
2009-03-09 21:49:17 Ignored unknown/unexpected token 'REPEAT=60' at line 129


Can someone help me with the right syntax?



And my second question:

In the hobbit-clients.cfg is the folowing server:

HOST=venus
#       DISK /media/news 50 51
        DISK /media/news IGNORE
        PROC ssh
        PROC /usr/local/bin/smsd 2 2
        PROC cron
        PROC readserial 0 2

It must be clearly that the /media/news filesystem is of no importance. 
Monitoring is nice for the graph, but I do not want a red disk if the filesystem is full.
I tried IGNORE, 100 100 but nothing works.
Since this is one of the servers that is sending sms i want to tune this parameter.

Does someone else has an idea?

Regards,

Gé Janssen

p.s. I upgraded last weekend to Xymon 4.23 from 4.20

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