On Mon, May 09, 2005 at 05:16:03PM -0400, Sue Bauer-Lee wrote:

Can someone provide some hobbit-alerts.cfg examples that show a setup similar to BB as in:

hostgroup services 1st pager delay hg-ntprod;;procs disk svcs;;*;*;pg-supportemail:~10-30 pg-ntadminpager:~05-10 pg-oncallpager:~30-60

The most direct conversion of host- and page-groups is to make them be Hobbit "macros", like this:

$HG_NTPROD=nt1,nt2,nt3 $PG_SUPPORTEMAIL=support1 at foo.com support2 at foo.com $PG_NTADMINPAGER=123456 $PG_ONCALLPAGER=987654

So a direct conversion of your setup above would be

HOST=$HG_NTPROD SERVICE=procs,disk,svcs MAIL $PG_SUPPORTEMAIL DURATION>10m REPEAT=30m SCRIPT /usr/local/bin/sendpage $PG_NTADMINPAGER DURATION>5m REPEAT=10m SCRIPT /usr/local/bin/sendpage $PG_ONCALLPAGER DURATION>30m REPEAT=1h

The /usr/local/bin/sendpage script is something you'll have to create yourself; unlike BB, Hobbit does not have built-in support for communicating with pagers (we dont use those over here on the east side of the Big Pond).

Can someone also provide an example of using the PAGE or SUBPAGE instead of providing a HOST list with conventions similar to te above?

Say this is your bb-hosts file:

page ntweb NT Web server 10.0.0.1 web1.foo.com 10.0.0.2 web2.foo.com 10.0.0.3 testweb.foo.com

page db Database servers

subpage oracle 10.1.0.1 db1.foo.com 10.1.0.2 db2.foo.com

subpage mssql 10.1.0.10 sql1.foo.com

Then you can define a rule for all of the webservers like this:

PAGE=ntweb MAIL support at foo.com

And this one for the oracle DB servers:

PAGE=db/oracle MAIL oracle-dba at foo.com

Can I mix both in the alerts config file?

Yes. E.g. if the "testweb.foo.com" server is only supposed to run on weekdays 8 AM - 6 PM, and you're personally responsible for it:

PAGE=ntweb EXHOST=testweb.foo.com MAIL support at foo.com HOST=testweb.foo.com TIME=W:0800:1800 MAIL sue at foo.com

The "EXHOST" excludes the testweb server from the rule, even though it is matched by "PAGE=ntweb". It is then caught by the next rule matching it on the hostname.

and for my really dumb question of the day - is there a line continuation character that can be used, recognized and properly parsed?

There are no dumb questions. And no, there is no continuation character for alert rules. Everything goes on one line (which is why you'll probably want to use macros and regular expressions).

Regards, Henrik