Use the EXSERVICE Tag in your alerts config file and the NOCOLUMNS tag in your bb-hosts file. The first will stop alerts from being sent, the second will stop the column from appearing on your web page.

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From: Carl Melgaard [mailto:Carl.Melgaard at STAB.RM.DK] Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2010 8:28 AM To: 'xymon at xymon.com' Subject: [xymon] SV: How to suppress alerts when combo-testing?

Hi,

Noone has a suggestion to, how I can suppress and hide tests only used in my combotest below? I need to make the red-tests disappear, so they wont create noise in the alerting or the acknowledge-page. How can I hide red-alerts and suppress alerting on them?

/melgaard

Fra: Carl Melgaard [mailto:Carl.Melgaard at STAB.RM.DK] Sendt: 2. december 2010 11:44 Til: 'xymon at xymon.com' Emne: [xymon] How to suppress alerts when combo-testing?

Hi,

Im monitoring a cluster-setup, a/b-nodes + cluster ressource:

10.83.13.12 bskidmsrv001.bsk.rm.dk # COMMENT:"SLES11cluster-res" prefer

10.83.13.10 bskidmsrv001a.bsk.rm.dk # COMMENT:"SLES11a" ldap ldaps ntp ntpd badntp:1:3:3 prefer NOCOLUMNS:ldap,ldaps

10.83.13.11 bskidmsrv001b.bsk.rm.dk # COMMENT:"SLES11b" ldap ldaps ntp ntpd badntp:1:3:3 prefer NOCOLUMNS:ldap,ldaps

ldap + ldaps will always be red on one of the nodes, so I've made a combotest to insert on the cluster-ressource:

bskidmsrv001.bsk.rm.dk.ldap = ( bskidmsrv001a.bsk.rm.dk.ldap + bskidmsrv001b.bsk.rm.dk.ldap ) == 1

bskidmsrv001.bsk.rm.dk.ldaps = ( bskidmsrv001a.bsk.rm.dk.ldaps + bskidmsrv001b.bsk.rm.dk.ldaps ) == 1

This works on - the green status shows up on the cluster-resseource host

• BUT I still get alerting on all the hidden red-tests, and I can still acknowledge all of the tests, I thought I hid away with NOCOLUMNS.

How do I achieve this - ie. suppressing the red alerts on the nodes where ldap/ldaps is not running?

Regards,

Carl Melgaard

Melgaard,

I do not know a way to stop this. Anyone else have an idea?

    .....Bruce






 
 

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From: Carl Melgaard [mailto:Carl.Melgaard at STAB.RM.DK] Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2010 3:59 PM To: xymon at xymon.com Subject: SV: [xymon] SV: How to suppress alerts when combo-testing?

Hi,

I recall trying this, and it stops alerting ok, and hides the red tests, BUT - all the red tests still show up in the "acknowledge alert"-page, which gets very annoying in the long run. Maybe I did something wrongly

• am I supposed to delete the test before hiding them with NOCOLUMN?

/melgaard

Fra: White, Bruce [bewhite at fellowes.com] Sendt: 7. december 2010 16:44 Til: xymon at xymon.com Emne: RE: [xymon] SV: How to suppress alerts when combo-testing?

Use the EXSERVICE Tag in your alerts config file and the NOCOLUMNS tag in your bb-hosts file. The first will stop alerts from being sent, the second will stop the column from appearing on your web page.

Bruce White

Senior Enterprise Systems Engineer | Phone: 630-671-5169 | Fax: 630-893-1648 | bewhite at fellowes.com | www.fellowes.com <http://www.fellowes.com/>

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From: Carl Melgaard [mailto:Carl.Melgaard at STAB.RM.DK] Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2010 8:28 AM To: 'xymon at xymon.com' Subject: [xymon] SV: How to suppress alerts when combo-testing?

Hi,

Noone has a suggestion to, how I can suppress and hide tests only used in my combotest below? I need to make the red-tests disappear, so they wont create noise in the alerting or the acknowledge-page. How can I hide red-alerts and suppress alerting on them?

/melgaard

Fra: Carl Melgaard [mailto:Carl.Melgaard at STAB.RM.DK] Sendt: 2. december 2010 11:44 Til: 'xymon at xymon.com' Emne: [xymon] How to suppress alerts when combo-testing?

Hi,

Im monitoring a cluster-setup, a/b-nodes + cluster ressource:

10.83.13.12 bskidmsrv001.bsk.rm.dk # COMMENT:"SLES11cluster-res" prefer

10.83.13.10 bskidmsrv001a.bsk.rm.dk # COMMENT:"SLES11a" ldap ldaps ntp ntpd badntp:1:3:3 prefer NOCOLUMNS:ldap,ldaps

10.83.13.11 bskidmsrv001b.bsk.rm.dk # COMMENT:"SLES11b" ldap ldaps ntp ntpd badntp:1:3:3 prefer NOCOLUMNS:ldap,ldaps

ldap + ldaps will always be red on one of the nodes, so I've made a combotest to insert on the cluster-ressource:

bskidmsrv001.bsk.rm.dk.ldap = ( bskidmsrv001a.bsk.rm.dk.ldap + bskidmsrv001b.bsk.rm.dk.ldap ) == 1

bskidmsrv001.bsk.rm.dk.ldaps = ( bskidmsrv001a.bsk.rm.dk.ldaps + bskidmsrv001b.bsk.rm.dk.ldaps ) == 1

This works on - the green status shows up on the cluster-resseource host

• BUT I still get alerting on all the hidden red-tests, and I can still acknowledge all of the tests, I thought I hid away with NOCOLUMNS.

How do I achieve this - ie. suppressing the red alerts on the nodes where ldap/ldaps is not running?

Regards,

Carl Melgaard

Xymon has a problem with clusters. It should be possible to tell Xymon that "these nodes are in a cluster, so don't alert me unless at least N of them are down at the same time". Right now, it isn't.

So if you want to eliminate the red status on the individual nodes in the cluster, you cannot do that.

Can I put up a feature request for this? Or have NOCOLUMNS suppress the behind-the-scenes red-alerts for acknowledge too?

If it's only the alerts you want to stop, then you can configure no alerts to be sent for the individual nodes - only send alerts for the cluster status (bskidmsrv001.ldap or .ldaps).

Yeah, that what I do now - but with a lot of clustered services, the acknowledge-page is my biggest worry.

Regards,

Carl Melgaard