Re: {bb} Network down causes huge paging backups

[John Boyd <jboyd@hi5.com>]

Yes, you can do it, but you might not want to.

Look in  bb/etc/bbwarnsetup.cfg on the BB-display server for the  
following lines (see "pagetype").  The downside to your question is  
that in order to get one page per host instead of the onslaught of  
messages, you need to disable the "pagerecovered"  option.  This  
wasn't a viable alternative for me, so I didn't go for it.  Perhaps  
someone else out there hacked the code to enable this....


#
# The "pagerecovered" token is set to TRUE when you want to be notify
#       when the state of the problem has come back to normal
#       (that is, it is not in the pagelevels colors)
#       This token is only valid when pagetype=EVENT, any other
#       pagetype would require lots of color status saving and I ain't
#       ready for it yet.
#
# e.g. pagerecovered: TRUE
#
# Scope: BBPAGER
# Reset: No

pagerecovered: TRUE


#
# The "pagetype" token describes how the delay between should be  
handled.
#
# RCPT - applicable on the recipient
#  The recipient (mail/page/sms) won't be
#  notified until the next "pagedelay"
#  regardless of event (host.service) error
#
# EVENT - applicable on the host.service combination (www.bb4.com|disk)
#  The recipient won't be notified on a specific
#  event (host.service) error until "pagedelay"
#  has expired. This will generate the most notifications
#
# HOST - applicable on the host that is in error
#  The recipient won't be notified on any
#  event error from the same HOST until "pagedelay" has expired.
#
# GROUP - applicable on the display GROUP
#  The recipient won't be notified on a specific
#  event within a bb-hosts group until "pagedelay"
#  has expired. Hosts that do not belong to any
#  group (defined before the first group/group-compress
#  directive in bb-hosts) are defined belonging to
#  the global-grp group
#
# NOTE:  As soon as an error event is resolved (returned to a color not
#               defined in "pagelevels" then the "pagedelay" is expired
#
# Scope: BBPAGER
# Reset: No

pagetype: EVENT





On Jul 26, 2005, at 11:40 AM, Kelly Corbin wrote:

> When the T1 to the BBPAGER and BBNETWORK machine is down,  
> everything that it monitors off-site goes red/purple for the  
> duration and then I get a deluge of pages when it comes back up.   
> Is there a way to armor against this?
>
> I've searched through the archives but haven't found an answer to  
> what I would think would be a common problem.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Kelly
>
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