Hi,
I was looking for a way of sending alerts based on bb-hosts:group and could not find a way. Is there no way of doing this? The nearest thing I could find was this e-mail below (which implies it is possible, but my debug tests suggest it does not work), but I could not find a follow-up to this e-mail. Alerts based on bb-hosts group and CLASS seem like a good idea... Or a way of designating network tests as belonging to a certain GROUP. (Lower-case "group" refers to the existing directive in bb-hosts (hosts.cfg), while upper-case GROUP refers to the hobbit-alerts (alerts.cfg) and hobbit-clients (analysis.cfg) setting.) e.g. myIP myHost # ftp[:port[:s]][@ipaddress][=GROUP] To be honest, I think either alerting by CLASS or bb-hosts:group would suffice, or in this particular case, I could move these hosts to their own page because there are a fair number. But I have other smaller groups/classes where their own page would be overkill...
Anyway, I'm looking for a good way to set-up alerts for network-tests on particular classes of servers... Is my best bet just to create a macro in alerts.cfg with all the hostnames I need? (And to remember to update it.)
Kind regards,
SebA
-----Original Message----- http://www.xymon.com/archive/2007/06/msg00074.html
bb-hosts:group, hobbit-alerts:GROUP, bb-hosts:CLASS questions
- Subject: bb-hosts:group, hobbit-alerts:GROUP, bb-hosts:CLASS questions
- From: Charles Jones <jonescr (at) cisco.com>
- Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2007 14:10:14 -0700
- Organization: Cisco Systems
I've been using HTML in the group titles in my bb-hosts, to spruce up the look of the hobbit page. Example: group-except files <font color="#33ebf4"><strong><i>Internal Servers</strong></i></font> Now I've come to a situation where I may want to create a paging alias that is tied to a particular group. My first question is, will I have to use the same HTML-ized name in hobbit-alerts.cfg as I did in bb-hosts? In other words: GROUP=<font color="#33ebf4"><strong><i>Internal Servers</strong></i></font>
MAIL someone (at) somwhwhere.comMy second question is, why is there no option to define alerts by CLASS (bb-hosts has a CLASS:Classname option)? This would allow more granular alert definitions as you could have a class of clients that are in multiple groups that you would want to have a specific alert for. Thanks,
-Charles