And if the groups that need to be notified that a service is disabled for maintenance are different from the people that need to be notified of an outage?
For example, when maintenance is started we don't want the on-call pager being alerted that a service has been disabled for maintenance - the purpose of a blue dot is so the person carrying the pager isn't woken up unnecessarily. We do want the admins group to be notified that the maintenance has started, though.
Brent B McCrackin UNIX Systems Specialist - Bell Sympatico Brent.McCrackin at Bell.ca PH: 416-353-0692 "Serenity through viciousness."
-----Original Message----- From: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] Sent: February 26, 2005 12:12 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] maint.pl with no email
On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 07:32:35PM -0500, Asif Iqbal wrote:
On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 11:22:34PM, Henrik Stoerner wrote:
Frankly, this part of maint.pl is just plain broken.
Well I had to add/modify couple things to make it work as it was with Bigbrother.
[snip the hack]
I am positive Henrik has a cooler solution for this.
Perhaps ... I've been cooking up something today that might be useful.
Instead of the "page notify-admin" recipient, I implemented a new command in the Hobbit protocol called "notify". When you send a "notify" command to the hobbit server, you also pass it a hostname, a testname, and a text message. Hobbit then sends this message through the alert module just as a normal alert-message about a status that has gone red - and the message is sent out using the normal methods configured for the recipients for that particular host+test combination.
So what happens is that when you disable a test, everyone that would normally receive an alert about that test will get a message that it has been disabled.
And the same when it is re-enabled, of course.
I think that makes more sense than sending to the generic "notify-admin" recipient.
Henrik
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