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:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, December 07, 2007 2:25 PM > To: Dave Scott > Cc: [email protected] > 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 = [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > > > 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 > > > > > > > > > > -- Tobi Oetiker, OETIKER+PARTNER AG, Aarweg 15 CH-4600 Olten http://it.oetiker.ch [EMAIL PROTECTED] ++41 62 213 9902 _______________________________________________ smokeping-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.oetiker.ch/cgi-bin/listinfo/smokeping-users
