Mike, Without really thinking about it, I know there's a way to test the alert setup using a command (I think hobbitd_alert, I'm sure someone will chime in soon).

It will allow you to set the date, time, host, service, and color for the test, which is detailed in the man page.

Here's an example from an email last month.

'bin/bbcmd hobbitd_alert --test whq-sapcon-1 telnet DURATION=361'

--Pat

From: Mike Rowell [mailto:Mike.Rowell at Rightmove.co.uk] Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2006 4:07 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: [hobbit] ALERTS time of day problem

Morning All (UK Time)

I've got an issue with the TIME function in hobbit-alerts which is causing us a few problems.

Hobbit has been running fine and we've starting making finer grained control on the alerts so that we don't get paged out of hours for stuff that we don't need to deal with. Below is the hobbit-alerts entries. The problem is that last night at 03:30am we were called out for an alert on the aq service which according to how the alert is setup should only be paging us between 0900 and 1700 weekdays. This is on 4.2PRE, we have newer snapshots running in test but I don't want to upgrade this platform unless I have to as it is running completely stable except for this TIME problem.

Any ideas?

Mike Rowell

ALERTS------

PAGE=test

MAIL=systems FORMAT=PLAIN TIME=W:0900:1800 COLOR=red,yellow STOP

HOST=%^switches.*

MAIL=systems COLOR=red,yellow REPEAT=1h FORMAT=PLAIN

MAIL=pager SERVICE=cpu COLOR=RED FORMAT=SMS DURATION>15 REPEAT=1h

TIME=*:0800:2200 STOP

HOST=*

MAIL=systems SERVICE=mrtg COLOR=red,yellow FORMAT=PLAIN STOP

MAIL=systems SERVICE=repli,prtdiag FORMAT=PLAIN REPEAT=1h

COLOR=red,yellow STOP

MAIL=systems COLOR=red,yellow REPEAT=1h FORMAT=PLAIN

MAIL=pager SERVICE=cpu COLOR=RED FORMAT=SMS DURATION>15 REPEAT=1h STOP

MAIL=pager SERVICE=aq COLOR=RED FORMAT=SMS DURATION>5 REPEAT=1h

TIME=W:0900:1700 STOP

MAIL=pager COLOR=RED FORMAT=SMS DURATION>5 REPEAT=1h

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