Re: [Observium] Critical alert not matching alerts checker

23 Mar 2015


      Hi Robert,
"Status" is not a sensor (used to be entity "senso"r of class "state") 
but a separate entity type ("status") now.
Tom
On 03/23/2015 09:49 AM, Robert Williams wrote:
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Hi Tom,
Thanks for that, however I thought that with an (Entity Match = *) 
that it would match all types of sensor regardless?
Is there an updated bit of documentation I'm missing? Or maybe someone 
can give me the exact syntax it needs to match this if it has some 
specific requirements?
Cheers!
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Robert Williams
Custodian Data Centre
Email: Robert@CustodianDC.com
http://www.CustodianDC.com
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From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of
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Tom Laermans
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Sent: 22 March 2015 20:04
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To: Observium Network Observation System
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Subject: Re: [Observium] Critical alert not matching alerts checker
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Quick reply from my cellphone, you need an alert checker for entity type
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status instead of sensor since a few weeks...
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Tom
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On Mar 22, 2015 7:55 PM, Robert Williams <Robert@CustodianDC.com
mailto:Robert@CustodianDC.com> wrote:
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Hi All,
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I have a device a Cisco 2960G with a failed internal PSU that has
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switched to it’s backup RPS supply. Observium is correctly identifying
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this as ‘critical’ under the Status Indicators for the device in
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question (image below):
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There is a “Hardware Fault” event I have created which /should/ have
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matched this, I believe:
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(I’ve added the match for value = critical as a test, it wasn’t there
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originally)
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This alert checker correctly matches a who load of devices and status
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checkers on many devices (1691 in total, all green):
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However, for this particular type of sensor, it does not see any
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sensors which match the “Hardware Fault” checker. As you can see, I have
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already removed all the “Device Match” and “Entity Match” criteria from
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the checker itself to rule that out. So essentially this checker is
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matching every type of sensor that there is (except, obviously, the one
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which I want it to).
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When I click the link on the graph for “Sw1, PS1 Critical, RPS Normal”
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sensor I get this URL http://observium-
http://observium-server/device/device=343/tab=health/metric=status/
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server/device/device=343/tab=health/metric=status/
http://observium-server/device/device=343/tab=health/metric=status/ 
which may be of use
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in helping diagnose this.
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After doing some more checking, I’ve found that it is not matching any
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other kind of sensor with a similar class, for example it does not match
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the WS-CAC-4000W-IN power supplies in any of the Cat6k chassis either.
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In fact, I think it’s actually failing to match sensors which have
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‘normal’ and ‘critical’ type statuses, instead of ‘true’ and ‘false’
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So the following sensors highlighted in yellow are also being missed
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from matching in this generic alerting config:
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So I believe it’s a wider issue and not just related to this one
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device.
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Can someone confirm what I’m doing wrong and/or maybe check to see if
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your alerting configurations can match sensors which have an OK state of
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‘normal’ instead of ‘true’?
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Cheers!
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Robert Williams
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Custodian Data Centre
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Email: Robert@CustodianDC.com mailto:Robert@CustodianDC.com
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