Re: {bb} initial page delay

[Jason Signalness <jason@btiadmin.net>]

> Your first rule does nothing, get rid of it. 
Doesn't my first rule (*;;*;;*;*;*:~15) indicate "*" as the recipient, 
as in ALL recipients?  I read the rule as "for all hosts, excluding 
nothing, for all services, excluding nothing, for all times, and for all 
recipients set an initial delay of 15 minutes."  Are you saying that 
because the subsequent lines DO NOT have an initial delay specified, it 
will ignore my first line?  Or are you saying my syntax is incorrect?

The effect I am after is this: For all services and recipients, don't 
page for 10 or 15 minutes if something goes red.  If a service is still 
red after that delay, e-mail my phone(s).  Then page every 4 hours until 
it's recovered.

Is there any way to set a site-wide initial delay?

Thanks for the info,
Jason



> Since there is
> no recipient noted, it's not even counted, really.  Secondly, if you
> want a page delay of 15 minutes set in the bbwarnrules.cfg, you'll
> have to set that for each rule that you want it used on.
>
> (However, you do have options.  If you are using bbgen, you can set in
> your bb-hosts file that a test shouldn't go red for a specific number
> of tests, using the badTEST directive.  Like this:
>
> 1.2.3.4     host1.domain.com     # test1 test2 test3 badtest1:1:1:3
>
> This will cause host1.domain.com to go yellow after 1 failure of
> test1, but not go red until test1 fails three times, which is 15
> minutes if you're using the default 300 second delay between tests.)
>
> If you don't use that, or if you don't want to have to put a badTEST
> directive in for every single test you're using (including the
> defaults, because you would need one for cpu, disk, log, etc), then
> you'll have to add a ~15 to  the end of every page rule in
> bbwarnrules.cfg.
>
> Remember, when you're writing a paging rule, make it as specific to
> the server(s)/test(s) that you're trying to match as you can.  It may
> not be possible to cover all servers and/or tests in one rule, even in
> the same host group.  Don't worry if you feel like you have to write
> 44 lines to get one host group paging correctly.  Sometimes it takes
> that.
>
>  
>
> > There was mention of a bug with this syntax, but that may have been in
> > an older version?  Anyone have details on that?
> >
> > Here is the relevant portion of my bbwarnrules.cfg file:
> > ------------------------------
> > # Don't page unless something is down for 15 minutes.
> > *;;*;;*;*;*:~15
> >
> > # email admin about everything (except things explicitly
> > # excluded below)
> > *;;*;;*;*;admin@abc.com
> >
> > # Big Brother Pagers
> > # See /etc/aliases for the proper e-mail addresses. To change who pages
> > go to, modify those aliases.  Don't change this.
> > #
> > #Next 5 lines are the default:
> > #Paul
> > hg-hostgroup1;;*;;*;*;ext-ex4-btipager_one admin@abc.com
> > #Rob
> > hg-hostgroup2;;*;;*;*;ext-ex4-btipager_two admin@abc.com
> > #Jason
> > hg-hostgroup3;;*;;*;*;ext-ex5-btipager_three admin@abc.com
> > #Kevin
> > hg-kevin;;*;;*;*;ext-ex4-btipager_four admin@abc.com
> > #Neal
> > hg-neal;;*;;*;*;ext-ex4-btipager_five admin@abc.com
> > #Mark K.
> > hg-mark;;*;;*;*;ext-ex4-btipager_six admin@abc.com
> >
> > #Everyone
> > hg-hostedservers;;*;;*;*;ext-ex4-btipager_one ext-ex4-btipager_two
> > ext-ex4-btipager_three admin@abc.com
> >    
>
>  


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