Re: {bb} initial page delay

[Jason Signalness <jason@btiadmin.net>]

Good morning,

Thanks for the help.  It finally works the way I want it to. I have it 
configured to page me after 7 minutes (effectively 10 minutes) and  
e-mail me without delay.  That way, we won't ignore the performance 
problems that exist, but we can sleep through them and fix them in the 
morning.

The reason I got the impression that I could specify "*" as recipient is 
this snippet from the manual:

> If a rule line starts with ! the event thats matches
> 	the rule line will disable notification to any
> 	recipient defined on that rule line.
> 	If the recipients field is '*' then no notification
> 	will occur for that event.  Here's an example
>
> 	!*;;*;;*;*;*
> 	
> 	This will in effect disable all notifications and render
> 	useless any other rule that you have defined :)
Unfortunately, this syntax doesn't seem to apply in all situations.

For posterity, here's my syntax:
------------------------------------------------------
# email admin about everything (except things explicitly
# excluded below)
*;;*;;*;*;admin@123.com

# Big Brother Pagers
#Paul
hg-hostgroup1;;*;;*;*;ext-ex4-btipager_one:~7-240
#Rob
hg-hostgroup2;;*;;*;*;ext-ex4-btipager_two:~7-240
. . .
------------------------------------------------------

-Jason


Ben Pitzer wrote:

> On Wed, 07 Jul 2004 15:33:39 -0500, Jason Signalness <jason@btiadmin.net> wrote:
>  
>
> > > 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?
> >    
>
> In short, the syntax is incorrect.  Everything up until the ~15 is
> correct, however it's moot if there is no recipient specified.  You
> can't configure * as 'all recipients', because it doesn't know who
> those are.  The host group and paging group sets in bbwarnsetup.cfg
> are not read unless specifically used in a rule, so in this case,
> where would it get the list of 'all recipients'?  It wouldn't, sorry
> to say.  It doesn't matter anyway, as the rule doesn't do what you're
> hoping anyway, that being (as I understand it) delay paging on all
> hosts to all recipients for 15 minutes.  The rules that follow it
> would still trigger immediately, because BB uses fall through (test
> against every rule), rather than first rule triggering.  You seem to
> be expecting BB to match on the first rule, then exit, which it
> doesn't.  Don't worry, that's one of the tougher things for alot of
> folks to understand about BB paging.
>
>  
>
> > 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.
> >    
>
> In that case, for every rule that you write in the bbwarnrules.cfg
> file, you need to add ~15-360 at the end.  That will cause the rule to
> not trigger for 15 minutes, and then only trigger every 4 hours after
> the initial page.
>
>  
>
> > Is there any way to set a site-wide initial delay?
> >    
>
> Unfortunately for you, no.  However, the ruleset you posted is short
> enough, so adding the ~15-360 after each rule should be manageable. 
> Sorry, but that's the way it is.
>
>  


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