[smokeping-users] master/slave alerts

[Tobias Oetiker]

Yesterday Dave Scott wrote:

> Hi Tobi, thanks a bunch for responding.
>
> So, if I have this correct, the system will send out alerts as they come
> in from slaves or masters, etc.

The salves play no rol in this at all. The alerts get generated on
the server by looking at the data they have ...

> Maybe if the system sends out the first alert then simply does
> not send duplicate alerts for the same failing target.  This way,
> any one of the master or slaves can create an alert, but only one
> alert total gets generates per downed target.

but the alert shuld say 'who' generated it ... after all we are
manyl looking at network connectivity here, it is a different thing
is the link from slaveA->target fails or slaveB->target or both ...

> Because I agree with you guys, we would like the slaves to generate
> alerts too, but with all the nodes we have configured, having extra
> slaves mean our cell phones ring double or triple or quadruple the
> amount of times in the middle of night. :)

so this essentially means there should only be one alert generated,
holding ALL the information ...

> Or, another thing comes to mind, which is probably harder to code, but
> if the system could be smart enough to only send one alert, but indicate
> inside the alert which systems(master or which slaves) see the target as
> down and which don't, then this would be one alert that explains
> everything.

:-)
> What you think?

I am all for it ... do you want to sponsor this ?

cheers
tobi

> Cheers
> -Dave
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tobias Oetiker [mailto:tobi at oetiker.ch]
> Sent: Friday, December 07, 2007 2:25 PM
> To: Dave Scott
> Cc: smokeping-users at lists.oetiker.ch
> Subject: Re: [smokeping-users] master/slave alerts
>
> Hi Dave,
>
> this will not work, since the server sends all the alerst ... its
> just that he sees two thing being 'off' so he sends two alerst ...
> (we find this hany since it gives us an idea if it is the
> connection or the target that has the problem) ...
>
> Not quite sure how to go about this configuration whise ...
> I guess some people want their slaves to send alerts (maybe not
> even all of them) ... hmmm any ideas ?
>
> cheers
> tobi
>
>
> Today Dave Scott wrote:
>
> > Hi there, I setup the Master/Slave configuration and it works great
> > however I'm running into a small issue with alerts.
> >
> >
> >
> > I now get alerts from both the master and the slave, is there any way
> to
> > only get alerts from the master?
> >
> >
> >
> > I've tried playing with the ++override like for instance
> >
> >
> >
> > *** Slaves ***
> >
> > ++override
> >
> > Targets.alerts =
> >
> >
> >
> > Or
> >
> > *** Slaves ***
> >
> > ++override
> >
> > Alerts.to =
> >
> >
> >
> > Or even changing the email address to
> >
> >
> >
> > *** Slaves ***
> >
> > ++override
> >
> > Alerts.to = someotheremail at email.com
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > I also added the edgetrigger = yes, but that creates yet even more
> > additional alerts.
> >
> >
> >
> > But nothing seems to help, I keep getting duplicate alerts from the
> > slave.
> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks for any help and thanks for a great product.
> >
> >
> >
> > -Dave
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>

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