On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 5:49 PM, Torsten Richter <bb4 at richter-it.net> wrote:
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Hi Henrik,
thanks for the answers.
Henrik Størner wrote:
In <49403EA2.7090906 at richter-it.net> Torsten Richter <bb4 at richter-it.net> writes:
is it possible with Hobbit 4.2.0 to time alerts? I was asked this by colleagues. They want something that if a yellow alert is displayed for more than a configurable time that Hobbit/XYmon sets the state of this alert to red.
Not possible today. It has not come up until now, but it's an interesting idea.
It was just a thought since Hobbit/XYmon is recording everything with a timestamp and this timestamp "just" needs to be evaluated.
I guess some people would also like a status to go blue if it's been red for more than a day :-)
Please don't say that as it might be possible that my colleagues are reading this mailing list too and then they are going to tease me about integrating this kind of stuff :-/
Actually, it's not hard to make something go blue after a certain length of time - I have that set up on a machine that's pinging some F5 BigIP group members.
What you do is, get the list of red things using hobbitdboard, then pipe it into a loop that checks the date/time. If it's greater than your designated max, send a "disable until OK" message.
I'd post a copy of my script, except that the company laid me off at the beginning of last week, and I didn't think to keep a copy at home... If anyone's interested I can recreate it from scratch...
Ralph Mitchell