Re: [Bigsister-general] Clarification on BigSister Alarming/Pager system

[Niels Baggesen <suppressed>]

On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 08:10:18PM +0000, Thomas wrote:
> What is the difference between an alarm rule and a pager rule? 
> Are pager rules required or do they just help to limit the scope of alarms? 
> Is it possible to only use pager rules or to only use alarm rules?  Are both
> required or just one? 

If by pager-rule you mean rules in bb_event_generator.cfg like
PAGER{$pager eq "sendmail" and $mail eq "test"} mail=addr1,addr2,addr3
then I can tell you that they are not needed.

So, just as an example I can show you what I have in bb_event_generator.cfg:

#-------------------------------------------------------------

*.*     prio=40 down=yellow up=green delay=5 \
        check="$host.conn and ((not '$router') or $router.conn)" \
	norepeat=20 keep=1 repeatprio=10 msgmax=120 \
	suppressed,suppressed

#-------------------------------------------------------------

netmusik.*              down=red
netmus-count.*          down=red
netmus-auth.*           down=red
netmus-tomcat.*         down=red
netmusws-tomcat.*       down=red
zeus.*                  down=red
zeus.cpu                down=never
zeus.net                down=never
zeus.ZServer            down=never

#-------------------------------------------------------------

*.*{daytime 22:00-08:00}        postpone_to=08:00
*.*{daytime 20:00-10:00 and weekday Fri-Sat}    postpone_to=10:00
*.*{daytime 20:00-08:00 and weekday Sun}        postpone_to=08:00
*.cpu{daytime 18:00-08:00}      postpone_to=08:00
@pub.*{daytime 18:00-09:00}     postpone_to=09:00
@pub.*{weekday Sun}             down=never
@Printere.*{daytime 18:00-09:00} postpone_to=09:00
@Modulex.*                      down=red suppressed

*.conn  prio=80 check="not '$router' or $router.conn"

*.disk          prio=60 check="1" delay=10
*.cpu           prio=20 check="1" delay=10
io.cpu          down=never

*.ups		delay=0

#-------------------------------------------------------------


/Niels

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Niels Baggesen -- @home -- Århus -- Denmark -- suppressed
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