Load threasholds when bbwin in 'central' mode
I decided to try out 4.3 beta 2 along with the central mode for 'bbwin' clients. Unfortunately when doing this I discovered many of the windows boxes were alerting red because the load was higher than my defaults of 4 and 8...
Now I've upped these to 95 and 100 to represent the percentage the windows boxes are using but this means the unix boxes could be broken and I wont know without setting individual alert thresholds.
Is there a way to change the windows 'load' to be 'load percentage' or something so each type of box is using a different monitoring type? I know there were discussions about having UNIX boxes sending in a load percentage but that this was a difficult thing to achieve correctly.
Our hostnames are normally dictated by service rather than platform unfortunately so I can't always just put so8/w2k etc pcre expressions in the thresholds to differentiate OS type.
Regards,
Craig Whilding
Whilding, Craig wrote:
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Is there a way to change the windows 'load' to be 'load percentage' or something so each type of box is using a different monitoring type? I know there were discussions about having UNIX boxes sending in a load percentage but that this was a difficult thing to achieve correctly.
Our hostnames are normally dictated by service rather than platform unfortunately so I can't always just put so8/w2k etc pcre expressions in the thresholds to differentiate OS type.
Do you have the windows servers on a different page to the UNIX / linux ones? You can use the PAGE statement for that.
You may also be able to use it based on client but personally i have not used it
Cheers
Iain
Regards,
Craig Whilding
I don't use this setting myself, but BBWin.cfg has a configclass entry that defaults to "win32". You can use CLASS variables in hobbit-clients on the server to apply rules to clients based on that value. If win32 is too generic you can change it to, for example, win32_XXX.
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 9:21 AM, Iain M Conochie <iain at shihad.org> wrote:
Whilding, Craig wrote:
<snip>
Is there a way to change the windows 'load' to be 'load percentage' or something so each type of box is using a different monitoring type? I know there were discussions about having UNIX boxes sending in a load percentage but that this was a difficult thing to achieve correctly.
Our hostnames are normally dictated by service rather than platform unfortunately so I can't always just put so8/w2k etc pcre expressions in the thresholds to differentiate OS type.
Do you have the windows servers on a different page to the UNIX / linux ones? You can use the PAGE statement for that.
You may also be able to use it based on client but personally i have not used it
Cheers
Iain
Regards,
Craig Whilding
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These weren't on separate pages per OS.
I hadn't seen the CLASS values you can base rules on. Works great though as I can put the defaults back down for UNIX and set high windows class ones based on the percentage.
Thanks,
Craig
From: John Thorton [mailto:xymon.user.ml at gmail.com] Sent: 29 September 2009 15:51 To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] Load threasholds when bbwin in 'central' mode
I don't use this setting myself, but BBWin.cfg has a configclass entry that defaults to "win32". You can use CLASS variables in hobbit-clients on the server to apply rules to clients based on that value. If win32 is too generic you can change it to, for example, win32_XXX.
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 9:21 AM, Iain M Conochie <iain at shihad.org> wrote:
Whilding, Craig wrote:
<snip>
Is there a way to change the windows 'load' to be 'load percentage' or something so each type of box is using a different monitoring type? I know there were discussions about having UNIX boxes sending in a load percentage but that this was a difficult thing to achieve correctly.
Our hostnames are normally dictated by service rather than platform unfortunately so I can't always just put so8/w2k etc pcre expressions in the thresholds to differentiate OS type.
Do you have the windows servers on a different page to the UNIX / linux ones? You can use the PAGE statement for that.
You may also be able to use it based on client but personally i have not used it
Cheers
Iain
Regards,
Craig Whilding
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