You can also associate a GROUP id with a rule. The group-id is passed to# the alert module, which can then use it to control who gets an alert when# a failure occurs. E.g. the following associates the "httpd" process check# with the "web" group, and the "sshd" check with the "admins" group:# PROC httpd 5 GROUP=web# PROC sshd 1 GROUP=admins# In the hobbit-alerts.cfg file, you could then have rules like# GROUP=web# MAIL webmaster at foo.com# GROUP=admins# MAIL root at foo.com

From: "HenrikStørner" <henrik at hswn.dk> Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2008 3:23 PM To: <hobbit at hswn.dk> Subject: Re: [hobbit] What is the syntax for GROUP=web,web2 ?

On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 02:53:03PM -0600, T.J. Yang wrote:

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PROC httpd 5 GROUP=web PROC sshd 1 GROUP=admins In the hobbit-alerts.cfg file, you could then have rules like GROUP=web MAIL webmaster at foo.com GROUP=admins MAIL root at foo.com

The above notes in hobbit-clients.cfg explain for httpd process less than 5, send alert to web(webaster at foo.com).

But I don't know what is the correct syntax to specify more than one recepients ?

is it "GROUP=web,web2,web3"

GROUP is a criterium, i.e. a way to select which alerts apply to this rule.

MAIL is an action - what happens when the criterium is matched.

So "GROUP=web,web2" would match any definition in hobbit-clients.cfg which had a "GROUP=web" or "GROUP=web2" tag assosiated.

If what you want is to send the alerts to several people, then you put those on the MAIL line. Like

GROUP=web MAIL joe at foo.com,liz at bar.org

in my case I have

GROUP=data-team-email dataemail at work.com GROUP=data-team-page pager at work.com

so for some data partitions I need them to be alerted by both email and pager. So I should configure my hobbit-client.cfg as HOST=dataserver.work.com /export 95 99 GROUP=data-team-email,data-team-page

Thanks for the clarification,

tj

Regards, Henrik

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