On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 09:52:58AM -0500, Manning Robert W. wrote:

I have been looking at the email lists and searching the web but can't find an answer. In BB, you can set up groups of people and clients in bbwarnrules and bbwarnsetup so you don't have to list every client separately when you set up the alerts. Does Hobbit have some convention like this, or am I doomed to set up a "paragraph" on each client I want to alert on?

When you write "client", I assume you mean "host" ?

There are several ways of doing this. You can control alerts by the hostnames, or the names of the Hobbit webpage they appear on, by the status column name etc.

The most direct conversion of the BB "hostgroup" concept is to use the members of your hostgroup in a Hobbit "HOST=..." setting. E.g. the BB sample config has

hg-routers: rt1 rt2 rt3 router* hg-routers host1*;;*;;*;*;root at localhost

In Hobbit, that would be

HOST=%^rt1|^rt2|^rt3|^router.* MAIL root at localhost

Note that Hobbit uses regular expressions instead of simple wildcard matching, so the "router*" from BB becomes "^router.*" in Hobbit, with a percent-character in front to flag it as a regular expression, and pipe-signs to indicate "rt1 OR rt2 OR ...". A simpler expression with the same effect would be

HOST=^rt[123]|^router

For the page-groups, you can define a macro in hobbit-alerts.cfg and use that in your alerting rules. Again using the BB sample config:

pg-routeradmins: joe at localhost joey at localhost joanne at localhost

in Hobbit becomes

$PGROUTERADMINS=joe at localhost,joey at localhost,joanne at localhost HOST=%^rt1|^rt2|^rt3|^router.* MAIL $PGROUTERADMINS

Regards, Henrik