[smokeping-users] Re: smokeping email alerts

[Dan McGinn-Combs]

Hmmmm. Well this is interesting.

1) It is possible that your alert is not triggering. Have you looked at
the graphs that Smokeping is generating? If the Smokeping background
process is not running, then no data is being saved to the rrd files and
no alerts will be triggered. Alerts are only evaluated during the update
function.

2) Just for testing, I would change my loss alerts to:
pattern = ==0%,==U

or create a rtt one:
pattern = !=U,==U

there is a possibility that your down-time never triggers the pattern of
up, up, up, down.

Just a couple of thoughts,
Dan

-----Original Message-----

Unfortunately, the problem was not sending email as both sendmail and
relevant[Dan says:]  perl modules were installed and tested. Any other
ideas?
 
On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 10:18:58AM -0400, Dan McGinn-Combs wrote:
> Dez,
 
> 1) By defining a mailhost, you are telling Smokeping to use the perl
> based SMTP functionality in NET::SMTP. If you do not have this loaded,
> it will not work.
 
> 2) Test your sendmail/SMTP functionality outside of Smokeping first.
> Using sendmail (if that's what you so) try this:
 
> Good luck!
> Dan
 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2004 9:50 AM
>> To: smokeping-users at list.ee.ethz.ch
>> Subject: [smokeping-users] smokeping email alerts
 
>> I've been trying to set up simple email alerts for smokeping targets
>> just to 
>> get the hang of it. I do not receive any email alerts and I cant seem
to
>> find
>> something wrong in my conf. Could anybody help?
 
>> Here's the relevant part of my config:
 
>> *** General ***
 
>> mailhost = smokehost.domain.com
>> sendmail = /usr/lib/sendmail
>> # specify this to get syslog logging
>> syslogfacility = local0
 
>> *** Alerts ***
>> to = nadm at domain.com
>> from = user at smokehost.domain.com
 
>> +testloss
>> type = loss
>> # in percent
>> pattern = ==0%,==0%,==0%,==0%,>0%
>> comment = test packet loss
 
>> +hostdown
>> type = loss
>> # in percent
>> pattern = ==0%,==0%,==0%, ==U
>> comment = no reply
 
>> *** Probes ***
 
>> + FPing
 
>> binary = /usr/local/bin/sfping
 
>> *** Targets ***
 
>> probe = FPing
 
>> ++++++ loco
 
>> menu = aaa
>> title = aaa
>> host = a.b.c.d
>> alerts = hostdown,testloss
 
>> ### end of config ###

 
>> Now, what I do to test my alerts is create a firewall rule to reject
all
>> ICMP traffic
>> towards a.b.c.d and wait for the email alert, which never comes :(
 
>> Any syggestions?


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