Hello Everyone,

I am a converted BB user (hobbit is so much easier and configurable) but one thing that I recall from my previous life with BB was a script and / or configurtaion in the alerting that sent a test alert out every day at the a fixed time so we could check that the alerting mechanism was sound and functioning.

Any ideas how I could do this under hobbit? I was thinking about writing a rule in hobbit-alerts.cfg that for a specific test on a specific host send an email out when the color is green and the time is *:1700:1705 (and Duration>0).

This, in my opinion, is a little clunky as the test will look like it came from a valid host that was green - anyone have a method that they use for this or any good ideas on how it could be done so I don't need to fake an alert? Can an alert be sent from a hobbit command run via cron for example?

Thanks in advance,

Iain.

-- Iain Miller iainonthemove at gmail.com