OK, I *am* dense today. Found the way to specify duration on the test (DUH!) and am now trying to figure out wha' hoppened last week.

Time to set up controlled test environment again . . .

Tom

-----Original Message----- From: Kauffman, Tom [mailto:KauffmanT at nibco.com] Sent: Wednesday, April 05, 2006 1:03 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: RE: [hobbit] Alert config issue or question -- 4.2 Alpha Release (and 4.03 Rc1)

Well, I feel better, but then I'm still stumped. We had an instance last week where the telnet test failed for 21 minutes -- and no alerts went out.

This box acts as a telnet server for half our remote-site scanners, so if we loose it, we have production people not working :-(

What's the syntax for adding the duration on the test? I tried "bin/bbcmd hobbitd_alert --test whq-sapcon-1 telnet DURATION=361" while I was playing around, to no apparent avail (on the 4.2 alpha).

Thanks!

Tom

-----Original Message----- From: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] Sent: Wednesday, April 05, 2006 12:09 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] Alert config issue or question -- 4.2 Alpha Release (and 4.03 Rc1)

On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 11:52:00AM -0400, Kauffman, Tom wrote:

I've a problem with my running 4.03RC1 (yeah, I know :-) that doesn't seem to change with 4.2 Alpha. 00018172 2006-04-05 11:42:36 Failed 'MAIL techsupt at localhost UNMATCHED DURATION>6m REPEAT=4h' (min. duration 0<360)

So if I'm reading this correctly, my 'duration>6m' is being interpreted as 'duration>6h'. The intent here is to require two failed tests before paging. Where have I gone wrong?

You're not reading it correctly. When you put DURATION>6m into the config, Hobbit internally converts that into 360 seconds. The output you see means that the current duration of the alert (0 seconds) - was less than the minimum duration required (360 seconds).

I cannot recall if the test option in 4.0.3 allows you to specify the duration for the test-alert; with newer version you can, and then you'd see the the "0" change accordingly.

Henrik

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