Hi Eric,

I'm not familiar with the SMS-behaviour of BB but I'm with Hobbit. Hobbit alerting in general is very simple but elegant and sending SMS-messages is just executing an alert rule and that can be from very simple/easy to really complex. Besides, Hobbit does not send any alerts for fi. a disk full when the host is not available. You can specify your own alerting days/times, hosts, services, how often (repeat daily) etc. while still the entire alerting configuration is easy to maintain.

Please have a look at: http://www.hswn.dk/hobbit/help/hobbit-alerts.html

Regards Peter 2006/11/6, Eric van de Meerakker <eric-list-1 at softlution.com>:

Hello,

I've now got SMS alerting in Hobbit configured and running (using the smstools package and a Falcom Samba 55 USB modem under SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 9), and I'm experiencing a very different behaviour for Hobbit from what I was accustomed to in Big Brother.

Basically, in Hobbit I get an SMS alert for every host/test combination that fails. We have situations where that generates about 10 SMS messages for a single true error. Sending ten messages where one would suffice seems a bit wasteful.

In Big brother the default behaviour was to send one SMS message only, upon the first fail, and then suspend sending more messages to the same recipient until the repeat delay was expired. Is there any way to get this behaviour in Hobbit 4.2.0, or has anyone already created something generally useful in e.g. the SMS alert interface script he is using?

If no-one has a solution, I'm going to write my own. Just checking if I'm about to re-invent the wheel!

Regards,

Eric.

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