Alert Checker Question
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I have an alert checker called, "device down" and it tests for "device_status = 0". Occasionally, this alert will fire, but the underlying OS still has network connectivity to these device (ICMP). What this tells me, is that the underlying SNMP daemon on the server may be malfunctioning, because if OBS can't make and SNMP poll to a device, it makes sense to me that it would think the device_status = 0 for that device.
So given that this doesn't seem to be an OBS issue, is it something others have encountered and found away around? I'm Ubuntu 18.04 here... just wondering if I need to throttle the poller or if there are other known way the community has addressed this?
Thanks,
Ryan
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you may include ping in your alert check as well?
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Alex
From: observium observium-bounces@observium.org On Behalf Of Ryan Huff via observium Sent: Dienstag, 19. Februar 2019 20:13 To: Observium observium@observium.org Cc: Ryan Huff ryanhuff@outlook.com Subject: [Observium] Alert Checker Question
I have an alert checker called, "device down" and it tests for "device_status = 0". Occasionally, this alert will fire, but the underlying OS still has network connectivity to these device (ICMP). What this tells me, is that the underlying SNMP daemon on the server may be malfunctioning, because if OBS can't make and SNMP poll to a device, it makes sense to me that it would think the device_status = 0 for that device.
So given that this doesn't seem to be an OBS issue, is it something others have encountered and found away around? I'm Ubuntu 18.04 here... just wondering if I need to throttle the poller or if there are other known way the community has addressed this?
Thanks,
Ryan
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Not sure, I don’t recall seeing ping in the entities list. Worth a shot I guess..
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On Feb 20, 2019, at 05:09, Joelly, Alexander via observium <observium@observium.orgmailto:observium@observium.org> wrote:
you may include ping in your alert check as well?
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Alex
From: observium <observium-bounces@observium.orgmailto:observium-bounces@observium.org> On Behalf Of Ryan Huff via observium Sent: Dienstag, 19. Februar 2019 20:13 To: Observium <observium@observium.orgmailto:observium@observium.org> Cc: Ryan Huff <ryanhuff@outlook.commailto:ryanhuff@outlook.com> Subject: [Observium] Alert Checker Question
I have an alert checker called, "device down" and it tests for "device_status = 0". Occasionally, this alert will fire, but the underlying OS still has network connectivity to these device (ICMP). What this tells me, is that the underlying SNMP daemon on the server may be malfunctioning, because if OBS can't make and SNMP poll to a device, it makes sense to me that it would think the device_status = 0 for that device.
So given that this doesn't seem to be an OBS issue, is it something others have encountered and found away around? I'm Ubuntu 18.04 here... just wondering if I need to throttle the poller or if there are other known way the community has addressed this?
Thanks,
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