Hubbard, Greg L escribió:

I would use router tags, make sure you are pinging the switch, and then put the switch as the first hop in your router path.

As for the flood of emails when connections are restored -- this is a Hobbit "feature" at present if you have "recovery" messages enabled -- Hobbit will send recovery messages regardless of whether or not it send a "problem" message. In a large installation, this could add up to a lot of emails.

Greg, I try to understand router tag, but it is not clear to me from documentation: Man page: http://www.hswn.dk/hobbit/help/manpages/man5/bb-hosts.5.html or Wikibook: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/System_Monitoring_with_Hobbit/Administration_Gu...

I have now monitoring the 'gateway' (conn), but how I notice hobbit and other servers checks that 'gateway' is the first router?

Can you please paste here a example configuration?

Thank you Rodolfo Pilas

-----Original Message----- From: Rodolfo Pilas [mailto:rodolfo at pilas.net] Sent: Friday, July 20, 2007 8:49 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: [hobbit] Avoid alarm when hobbitd server lost connection

I have a hobbitd server that monitor several other servers (hosts)

hobbitd ------- server0 |------ server1 |------ server2 |------ ... '------ serverN

I had an issue with the hobbit server switch and its lost conn with all 'serverN' but not with 'localhost'. As soon as switch restore connection I receive e-mail alarms for all monitors.

What is the proper way to avoid alarms when hobbitd lost all remote conns? (and not with localhost) (two hobbitd servers?) ("router" or "depends" tags?)

Thank you Rodolfo Pilas

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-----Original Message----- From: Rodolfo Pilas [mailto:rodolfo at pilas.net] Sent: Montag, 23. Juli 2007 18:17 To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] Avoid alarm when hobbitd server lost connection

Greg, I try to understand router tag, but it is not clear to me from documentation: Man page: http://www.hswn.dk/hobbit/help/manpages/man5/bb-hosts.5.html or Wikibook:

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/System_Monitoring_with_Hobbit/Administratio n_

Guide

I have now monitoring the 'gateway' (conn), but how I notice hobbit and other servers checks that 'gateway' is the first router?

Can you please paste here a example configuration?

Scenario:

You have a remote network in which you want to monitor host(s). You reach this network via router1 on the remote site. So your definition will be like this:

x.x.x.x somehost # route:router1

This tag changes the color reported for a ping check that fails, when one or more of the hosts in the "route" list is also down. A "red" status becomes "yellow" - other colors are unchanged. The status message will include information about the hosts in the router-list that are down, to aid tracking down which router is the root cause of the problem.

Regards Johann