Hi all,
I am looking in to setting up Hobbit alerts but I am having problems verifying and testing the configs.
In my hobbit-alerts.cfg file I have the following entry: HOST=tac0.lon.ws.colt.net MAIL martin.ward at colt.net
Also, in my hobbitserver.cfg I have this: MAILC="/bin/mailx" # Command used to send an e-mail with no subject MAIL="$MAILC -s" # Command used to send an e-mail with a subject
So the theory goes that when an alert occurs the /bin/mailx command is executed with various different parameters.
The problem is, when I try and test it I get the following:
hobbit at hbt0:/opt/hobbit/server/etc>hobbitd_alert --test
tac0.lon.ws.colt.net proc
00000935 2008-06-24 15:19:56 send_alert tac0.lon.ws.colt.net:proc state
Paging
00000935 2008-06-24 15:19:56 Matching host:service:page
'tac0.lon.ws.colt.net:proc:Netops' against rule line 128
00000935 2008-06-24 15:19:56 *** Match with 'HOST=tac0.lon.ws.colt.net'
00000935 2008-06-24 15:19:56 Matching host:service:page 'tac0.lon.ws.colt.net:proc:Netops' against rule line 128 00000935 2008-06-24 15:19:56 *** Match with 'HOST=tac0.lon.ws.colt.net'
00000935 2008-06-24 15:19:56 Mail alert with command '/var/mail/hobbit "Hobbit [12345] tac0.lon.ws.colt.net:proc CRITICAL (RED)" martin.ward at colt.net'
As you can see the mail alert command is completely wrong. Running this command under different user IDs simply changes the user ID in the "/var/mail/..." text above. I can't get Hobbit to actually run the mailx command.
Any suggestions as to what I am missing?
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