Here's a patch of my version of mon, which I tweaked to fix this
problem. This patch also includes a a fix to make mon tell you when it
has reach a max number of alerts and will send no more.
-hal
Hutchison, Stuart wrote:
> Hello,
> I have a remote watch script to successfully sending named mon traps to the
> daemon, but the daemon then alerts on every trap rather than following the
> alertevery directive in the mon.cf section. Is the following piece of mon.cf
> correct? Current versions are: mon 0.38.18, Mon::Client v1.31 (modified for
> NT4).
> --
> watch systemsKM
> service signals
> description KM signal status
> period wd {Sun-Sat}
> # comp_alerts
> alert file.alert -d /var/log/mon systemsKM.log
> alert qpage.alert shutchis
> alertevery 1h summary
> alert mail.alert shutchis
> upalert mail.alert shutchis
> upalert qpage.alert shutchis
> --
> regards,
> Stuart Hutchison
> Unix Administrator
> Sherritt International Corp
> (780) 992-7083
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
--- /tmp/mon-0.99.2/mon Sat Sep 8 09:42:05 2001
+++ /opt/mon/bin/mon Mon Nov 5 16:41:41 2001
@@ -490,7 +490,7 @@
sub do_startup_alerts {
foreach my $group (keys %watch) {
foreach my $service (keys %{$watch{$group}}) {
- do_alert ($group, $service, "", 0, $FL_STARTUPALERT);
+ do_alert($group, $service, "", 0, $FL_STARTUPALERT);
}
}
}
@@ -574,11 +574,20 @@
#
# alert only numalerts
#
- if ($pref->{"numalerts"} &&
- $pref->{"_alert_sent"} >= $pref->{"numalerts"})
- {
+ if ($pref->{"numalerts"}) {
+ if ($pref->{"_alert_sent"} == ($pref->{"numalerts"} - 1)) {
+ my @lines = split("\n", $output);
+ my $sum = shift(@lines);
+ $sum = "[LAST OF " . $pref->{"numalerts"} . "] $sum";
+ unshift(@lines, "THIS IS ALERT #" .
+ ($pref->{"_alert_sent"} + 1) . ". " .
+ "NO MORE ALERTS WILL BE SENT DURING THE " .
+ "CURRENT PERIOD.\n");
+ $output = join("\n", $sum, @lines);
+ } elsif ($pref->{"_alert_sent"} >= $pref->{"numalerts"}) {
next;
}
+ }
#
# only alert once every "alertevery" seconds, unless
@@ -3949,13 +3958,19 @@
}
#### else just fall through and send alert
+ #TRAPALERT
+ if (!$noalert) {
do_alert (
$trap{"grp"},
$trap{"svc"},
$trap{"sum"} . $trap{"dtl"},
$trap{"sta"},
$FL_TRAP | $flags,
- ) unless ($noalert);
+ );
+ my $sref = \%{$watch{$group}->{$service}};
+ $sref->{"_failure_output"} = $trap{"sum"} . $trap{"dtl"};
+
+ }
if( defined($sref->{"_intended"}) )
{
