On a similar note to this, I've just been looking at monitoring certain processes or services which will need a different alert to others on the same box. I don't want to have to write separate scripts to monitor each service as the clients already check the status of each, I was just wondering if it was possible server side to split the alerting of each proc/service or allow the check to be redirected to another page.
An example of what I mean is that we check the virus scanner is running on all systems but don't care about this as much as if our clearcase server processes stopped working.
Thanks,
Craig Whilding
From: Allan.Marillier at dana.com [mailto:Allan.Marillier at dana.com] Sent: 30 November 2005 16:41 To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: [hobbit] Disk monitoring and alerts
We are undergoing some restructuring among support teams, and are separating and defining some responsibilities a little better. System admins will be called on system specific problems, while DBAs and apps support people will be called on others. One of my frequent complaints in the past has been getting calls on filled file systems containing Oracle trace files, dumps, logs, temporary files etc. that I don't feel I should be making decisions to remove, gzip etc.
That is changing - DBAs will be called on those file systems in other environments where we're using HP's ITO (aka Vantage Point / OpenView, call it what you will).
I want to try to do the same on the servers I am monitoring with hobbit. Is there any way, or a possibility of a feature request that would allow me to specify alerts to me for all filesystems, other than a few specific ones? E.g. using a modified version of the hobbit-alerts page example:
HOST=www.foo.com MAIL dba at foo.com SERVICE=disk.ora-db,disk.ora-idx,disk.ora-log REPEAT=1h MAIL unixsupport at foo.com SERVICE=cpu,disk,memory