If your server naming convention includes something to indicate type and location, then you can probably create a host group macro in the alert configuration for each location, and then create the rules you need to send those alerts to the users that need to get them.

If you are willing to do the work, you can set up this type of alerting entirely within the alerting rules and pay no attention to what is set up in bb-hosts.

GLH

-----Original Message----- From: Dennis Ortsen [mailto:dortsen at gmail.com] Sent: Friday, May 04, 2007 5:35 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: [hobbit] Alerting on matching group tags in bb-hosts

Hi All,

I'm busy setting up alerting (first timer). We have several departments doing specialized work. One dept. Handles the network, the other linux servers, again another for windows servers and finally one that handles all the webservers. The departments are also spread over two locations.

I've created a few pages (no subpages) in bb-hosts which contain group items as well. For instance:

page windows Windows

group Domain controllers 1.2.3.4 dcroot # COMMENT:"main DC" 1.2.3.5 dclocation1 # COMMENT:"DC for location1" 1.2.3.6 dclocation2 # COMMENT:"DC for location2"

group Windows servers in location1 1.2.4.1 server1-location1 1.2.4.2 server2-location1

group Windows servers in location2 1.2.4.3 server3-location2 1.2.4.4 server4-location2

All servers have a hobbit-compatible client (Bbwin) installed.

From what I have read in the documentation, it is not possible to send alert emails to a defined mail group in hobbit-alerts.cfg based on the group tag in bb-hosts. It is possible for (sub)page tags and hosts matching a regexp. But what if I want all problems to any host under group "Windows servers in location2" to be directed to a list of email addresses for that specific location?

How can I accomplish this?

Thnx in advance

Regards,

Dennis

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