disable alert by test in bb-hosts

The background for this request is as follows: 1. each host has a standard list of services we check 2. alert rules group systems by functionality (regex) rather specifying a separate alert rule for each host or page.

HOST="%(tucwbd.*|vsiwbd.*)"
    MAIL $UNIXOPS SERVICE=conn,disk,http,procs DURATION>5m REPEAT=10m TIME=W:0800:1800 RECOVERED

Request: 1. For hostA in bb-hosts: 10.20.33.208 tucwbd153 # telnet ssh

I want to add a series of http checks as a dependency chain
such that if http://tucwbd153 fails, 
	1. don't alert on http://tucwbd153/web/hobbit
	2. if http://tucwbd153/web/hobbi fails, 
	   don't alert on http://hobbit:monitor at tucwbd153/web/hobbit

Is this setup as a depends statement? Additionally, for certain periods of time I may want to set up a test for a host that I don't want to receive alerts for. I'd hate to have to break out those individual hostnames from regex above in my alerts file. Is there a tag I can use with the test in bb-hosts to disable that alert?

10.20.33.208     tucwbd153 # telnet ssh noalert=http://tucwbd153/web/hobbit
(is line continuation recognized for the bb-hosts config?)

I always want alerts for specified time frames for telent, conn, ssh
but the DEV systems for the web team can have lots of stops and
starts of web service. 

clear would be ok to display for downtime.

Is there a better way to manage alerts for regex group and then isolate specific tests?

Sue Bauer-Lee |