Example of a long route chain:
HobbitServer --> Firewall.Rail.1 --> NATServerPhysical --> NATServerVirtual --> Router1
Route:Firewall.Rail.1,NATServerPhysical,NATServerVirtual,Router
Remember, everything in the chain must correspond to a name somewhere in the bb-hosts file on your Hobbit server. No spaces allowed in the chain.
This tag doesn't suppress everything, but it will make ping fails yellow instead of red for things beyond the first failure. In my case, if the NAT server goes down (or becomes inaccessible) then the conn test for NATServerPhysical will go red, and the conn tests for NETServerVirtual and Router will go yellow and include a message blaming everything on NATServerPhysical.
NOTE: The above names are bogus -- I cannot post the real ones...
GLH
-----Original Message----- From: Rodolfo Pilas [mailto:rodolfo at pilas.net] Sent: Monday, July 23, 2007 11:17 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] Avoid alarm when hobbitd server lost connection
Hubbard, Greg L escribió:
I would use router tags, make sure you are pinging the switch, and then put the switch as the first hop in your router path.
As for the flood of emails when connections are restored -- this is a Hobbit "feature" at present if you have "recovery" messages enabled -- Hobbit will send recovery messages regardless of whether or not it send a "problem" message. In a large installation, this could add up to a lot of emails.
Greg, I try to understand router tag, but it is not clear to me from documentation: Man page: http://www.hswn.dk/hobbit/help/manpages/man5/bb-hosts.5.html or Wikibook: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/System_Monitoring_with_Hobbit/Administration_Gu...
I have now monitoring the 'gateway' (conn), but how I notice hobbit and other servers checks that 'gateway' is the first router?
Can you please paste here a example configuration?
Thank you Rodolfo Pilas
-----Original Message----- From: Rodolfo Pilas [mailto:rodolfo at pilas.net] Sent: Friday, July 20, 2007 8:49 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: [hobbit] Avoid alarm when hobbitd server lost connection
I have a hobbitd server that monitor several other servers (hosts)
hobbitd ------- server0 |------ server1 |------ server2 |------ ... '------ serverN
I had an issue with the hobbit server switch and its lost conn with all 'serverN' but not with 'localhost'. As soon as switch restore connection I receive e-mail alarms for all monitors.
What is the proper way to avoid alarms when hobbitd lost all remote conns? (and not with localhost) (two hobbitd servers?) ("router" or "depends" tags?)
Thank you Rodolfo Pilas
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