[hobbit] Suitability for bb replacement in large enterprise

In <493DA5AF.1080704 at tmsusa.com> J Sloan <joe at tmsusa.com> writes:

Yes, it's very simple and straightforward: send out an snmp trap based on an event, per the bbwarnrules.cfg, just like the email alerts. If hobbit can be made to do that, one of the two key requirements would be met, and only the failover behaviour would still need to be resolved.

In hobbit-alerts.cfg you'd have something like

HOST=* TEST=disk
    SCRIPT /usr/local/bin/trapmessage 0

Then your /usr/local/bin/trapmessage would do the trap-sending. E.g. using Net-SNMP tools and the defaults from BB's bbwarnsetup.cfg:

#!/bin/sh

OID="enterprises.7058"    # 7058 is the Big Brother OID
SNMPSTATION="10.3.2.1"    # IP of your monitoring system

# BB maps a service to a numeric trapcode. See the
# 'trapcodes' definition in bbwarnsetup.cfg
# Add those you use here.
case "$BBSVCNAME" in
  "disk") 
      TRAPCODE="2"
  ;;
  "cpu")
      TRAPCODE="4"
  ;;
esac
# ... and adds 1 if the status has recovered
if test "$RECOVERED" = "1"
then
   TRAPCODE=`expr $TRAPCODE + 1`
fi

snmptrap -v1 -c public $SNMPSTATION $OID \
   $BBHOSTNAME 6 $TRAPCODE '' $OID s "$BBALPHAMSG"

exit 0

Regards, Henrik