What time should Hobbit consider the start-of-event time? Some prefer the current arrangement where it uses the time it goes non-green; others prefer the time it goes to a color which triggers an alert. I've heard arguments both ways.
Thanks Henrik. The way it is working in the server I have running 4.2.1RC1is how I'm looking for it to run on the standby server, which I just installed 4.2.1P1 on and I'm still getting the alerts with the duration including the yellow time, not just when it goes to red\panic. Is there a way I can change it so that it will work as it does in 4.2.1RC1 and only send an alert after 10 minutes of a red panic that doesn't include the yellow in the duration? I'm also finding I don't get recovery notices if it goes from red to yellow and then to green.
On 8/8/06, Henrik Stoerner <henrik at hswn.dk> wrote:
On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 01:29:00PM -0400, Bill Perez wrote:
Could you show us a copy of the cpu history log (in ~hobbit/data/hist/HOSTNAME.cpu) compared with the notifications log from ~hobbit/server/logs/notifications.log ?
Here is the hostname.cpu and section from notifications.log for those alerts this morning:
From /hobbit/data/hist/HOSTNAME.cpu Tue Aug 1 10:34:30 2006 yellow 1154442870 1200 Tue Aug 1 10:54:30 2006 red 1154444070 600 Tue Aug 1 11:04:30 2006 green 1154444670 299 Tue Aug 1 11:09:29 2006 yellow 1154444969 301 Tue Aug 1 11:14:30 2006 red 1154445270 301 Tue Aug 1 11:19:31 2006 green 1154445571
Tue Aug 1 10:54:30 2006 uswosfad.domain.com.cpu (10.128.40.31) b.perez at domain.com[175] 1154444070 200 Tue Aug 1 11:04:30 2006 uswosfad.domain.com.cpu (10.128.40.31) b.perez at domain.com[175] 1154444670 200 1800 Tue Aug 1 11:19:30 2006 uswosfad.domain.com.cpu (10.128.40.31) b.perez at domain.com[175] 1154445570 200 Tue Aug 1 11:19:42 2006 uswosfad.domain.com.cpu (10.128.40.31) b.perez at domain.com[175] 1154445581 200 612
OK, Hobbit thinks the first event begins at 10:34 when the status goes yellow. Even though this doesn't trigger an alert, it registers this as the starttime of the event. So when it goes red at 10:54, your 10 minute delay has already elapsed, and you get an immediate alert. Then when it goes green at 11:04 you of course get a recovery notice.
Same thing when the goes yellow again at 11:09. No alert is sent, but this time is registered as the start of the event. So at 11:14 when it goes red you do not get an alert (11:09->11:14 is only 5 minutes), but you do get the alert at 11:19:30 - and when it goes green at 11:19:31 it sends out a "recovered" message.
What time should Hobbit consider the start-of-event time? Some prefer the current arrangement where it uses the time it goes non-green; others prefer the time it goes to a color which triggers an alert. I've heard arguments both ways.
Regards, Henrik
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