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Brian Bianchi

13 Oct 2020 13 Oct '20

6:14 p.m.

Hi folks,

I have an application running on port 7990.

I would like to create a custom Alert Checker to check if this port is functional.

I have read the documentation here: https://docs.observium.org/alert_checker/ https://docs.observium.org/alerting_examples/

The "port is operational but functionally down" option looks like the one for me.

But how the heck do I select a specific port of 7990 to be monitored?

Thanks!

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Adam Armstrong

13 Oct 13 Oct

6:24 p.m.

Wrong type of port, the alert checker you're looking at is checking a physical port.

To check an arbitrary TCP/UDP port you'll want to add it as a check_tcp or check_udp probe, then the alert checker will test that probe's status.

Adam.

From: observium observium-bounces@observium.org On Behalf Of Brian Bianchi via observium Sent: 13 October 2020 17:15 To: observium@observium.org Cc: Brian Bianchi bbianchi@vestmark.com Subject: [Observium] How to create Alert Checker for a specific port?

Hi folks,

I have an application running on port 7990.

I would like to create a custom Alert Checker to check if this port is functional.

I have read the documentation here:

https://docs.observium.org/alert_checker/

https://docs.observium.org/alerting_examples/

The "port is operational but functionally down" option looks like the one for me.

But how the heck do I select a specific port of 7990 to be monitored?

Thanks!

Brian Bianchi Senior Release Engineer o: +1 (781) 213-6483 e: bbianchi@vestmark.com mailto:bbianchi@vestmark.com

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Brian Bianchi

15 Oct 15 Oct

2:15 p.m.

Thanks for the response Adam.

That sounds like exactly what I need.

Unfortunately I can find little to no documentation on how to set up an probe alert checker.

Can you perhaps point me in the right direction? My device is IP 10.160.96.177, and I am here (below) but not sure how to proceed. What would be my metric conditions?

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Thanks a great deal for any info you can provide.

Brian Bianchi Senior Release Engineer d: +1 (781) 213-6483 e: bbianchi@vestmark.com

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Wrong type of port, the alert checker you’re looking at is checking a physical port.

To check an arbitrary TCP/UDP port you’ll want to add it as a check_tcp or check_udp probe, then the alert checker will test that probe’s status.

Adam.

From: observium <observium-bounces@observium.orgmailto:observium-bounces@observium.org> On Behalf Of Brian Bianchi via observium Sent: 13 October 2020 17:15 To: observium@observium.orgmailto:observium@observium.org Cc: Brian Bianchi <bbianchi@vestmark.commailto:bbianchi@vestmark.com> Subject: [Observium] How to create Alert Checker for a specific port?

Hi folks,

I have an application running on port 7990.

I would like to create a custom Alert Checker to check if this port is functional.

I have read the documentation here: https://docs.observium.org/alert_checker/https://docs.observium.org/alert_checker/ https://docs.observium.org/alerting_examples/https://docs.observium.org/alerting_examples/

The “port is operational but functionally down” option looks like the one for me.

But how the heck do I select a specific port of 7990 to be monitored?

Thanks!

[cid:image006.png@01D6A2CB.48DBE640] Brian Bianchi Senior Release Engineer o: +1 (781) 213-6483 e: bbianchi@vestmark.commailto:bbianchi@vestmark.com

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Ahmed Rahal

5:05 p.m.

Hi Brian,

I recently added probes to my setup and didn't yet add alerts for them. Essentially, the condition can look like this: probe_event notequals ok According to the code I saw (but I am just guessing at this) you can have 'ok', 'warning', 'alert', 'unknown' (the typical return codes for a nagios plugin): in includes/definitions/entities.inc.php $config['entities'][$entity]['metrics']['probe_event'] = array('label' => 'Event', 'type' => 'string', 'values' => [ 'ok', 'warning', 'alert', 'unknown' ]);

Tested with the above condition and it worked as expected. I am still not clear about the difference between probe_event and status (which seems to bear the same values as probe_event). I suggest you fiddle with it a bit ;)

As you noted however, google seems to have no clue about this case. Clearly the documentation is missing here.

HTH,

Ahmed.

Le jeu. 15 oct. 2020, à 08 h 15, Brian Bianchi via observium < observium@observium.org> a écrit :

...

Thanks for the response Adam.

That sounds like exactly what I need.

Unfortunately I can find little to no documentation on how to set up an probe alert checker.

Can you perhaps point me in the right direction? My device is IP 10.160.96.177, and I am here (below) but not sure how to proceed. What would be my metric conditions?

Thanks a great deal for any info you can provide.

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Wrong type of port, the alert checker you’re looking at is checking a physical port.

To check an arbitrary TCP/UDP port you’ll want to add it as a check_tcp or check_udp probe, then the alert checker will test that probe’s status.

Adam.

*From:* observium observium-bounces@observium.org *On Behalf Of *Brian Bianchi via observium *Sent:* 13 October 2020 17:15 *To:* observium@observium.org *Cc:* Brian Bianchi bbianchi@vestmark.com *Subject:* [Observium] How to create Alert Checker for a specific port?

Hi folks,

I have an application running on port 7990.

I would like to create a custom Alert Checker to check if this port is functional.

I have read the documentation here:

https://docs.observium.org/alert_checker/

https://docs.observium.org/alerting_examples/

The “port is operational but functionally down” option looks like the one for me.

But how the heck do I select a specific port of 7990 to be monitored?

Thanks!
   *Brian Bianchi*
   Senior Release Engineer
    o:  +1 (781) 213-6483
    e: bbianchi@vestmark.com
Learn more about Vestmark! View our introduction video here https://vimeo.com/374253696.

Check us out on Social Media:

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Ahmed Rahal

6:31 p.m.

Hi,

Actually, I found this snippet of documentation: https://docs.observium.org/entities/#metrics_17

So there is documentation ;)

Ahmed.

Le jeu. 15 oct. 2020, à 11 h 05, Ahmed Rahal arahal@fibrenoire.ca a écrit :

...

Hi Brian,

I recently added probes to my setup and didn't yet add alerts for them. Essentially, the condition can look like this: probe_event notequals ok According to the code I saw (but I am just guessing at this) you can have 'ok', 'warning', 'alert', 'unknown' (the typical return codes for a nagios plugin): in includes/definitions/entities.inc.php $config['entities'][$entity]['metrics']['probe_event'] = array('label' => 'Event', 'type' => 'string', 'values' => [ 'ok', 'warning', 'alert', 'unknown' ]);

Tested with the above condition and it worked as expected. I am still not clear about the difference between probe_event and status (which seems to bear the same values as probe_event). I suggest you fiddle with it a bit ;)

As you noted however, google seems to have no clue about this case. Clearly the documentation is missing here.

HTH,

Ahmed.

Le jeu. 15 oct. 2020, à 08 h 15, Brian Bianchi via observium < observium@observium.org> a écrit :

...
Thanks for the response Adam.

That sounds like exactly what I need.

Unfortunately I can find little to no documentation on how to set up an probe alert checker.

Can you perhaps point me in the right direction? My device is IP 10.160.96.177, and I am here (below) but not sure how to proceed. What would be my metric conditions?

Thanks a great deal for any info you can provide.

*Brian Bianchi* Senior Release Engineer d: +1 (781) 213-6483 e: bbianchi@vestmark.com

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Wrong type of port, the alert checker you’re looking at is checking a physical port.

To check an arbitrary TCP/UDP port you’ll want to add it as a check_tcp or check_udp probe, then the alert checker will test that probe’s status.

Adam.

*From:* observium observium-bounces@observium.org *On Behalf Of *Brian Bianchi via observium *Sent:* 13 October 2020 17:15 *To:* observium@observium.org *Cc:* Brian Bianchi bbianchi@vestmark.com *Subject:* [Observium] How to create Alert Checker for a specific port?

Hi folks,

I have an application running on port 7990.

I would like to create a custom Alert Checker to check if this port is functional.

I have read the documentation here:

https://docs.observium.org/alert_checker/

https://docs.observium.org/alerting_examples/

The “port is operational but functionally down” option looks like the one for me.

But how the heck do I select a specific port of 7990 to be monitored?

Thanks!
   *Brian Bianchi*
   Senior Release Engineer
    o:  +1 (781) 213-6483
    e: bbianchi@vestmark.com
Learn more about Vestmark! View our introduction video here https://vimeo.com/374253696.

Check us out on Social Media:

https://www.linkedin.com/company/vestmark/

https://www.glassdoor.com/Overview/Working-at-Vestmark-EI_IE263618.11,19.htm

http://twitter.com/Vestmark

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Adam Armstrong

8:09 p.m.

One of them is generated by us, one is the return code from the script. It’s possible they won’t be the same.

I forget which is which :)

Adam.

From: observium observium-bounces@observium.org On Behalf Of Ahmed Rahal via observium Sent: 15 October 2020 17:31 To: Observium observium@observium.org Cc: Ahmed Rahal arahal@fibrenoire.ca Subject: Re: [Observium] How to create Alert Checker for a specific port?

Hi,

Actually, I found this snippet of documentation:

https://docs.observium.org/entities/#metrics_17

So there is documentation ;)

Ahmed.

Le jeu. 15 oct. 2020, à 11 h 05, Ahmed Rahal <arahal@fibrenoire.ca mailto:arahal@fibrenoire.ca > a écrit :

Hi Brian,

I recently added probes to my setup and didn't yet add alerts for them.

Essentially, the condition can look like this:

probe_event notequals ok

According to the code I saw (but I am just guessing at this) you can have 'ok', 'warning', 'alert', 'unknown' (the typical return codes for a nagios plugin):

in includes/definitions/entities.inc.php

$config['entities'][$entity]['metrics']['probe_event'] = array('label' => 'Event', 'type' => 'string', 'values' => [ 'ok', 'warning', 'alert', 'unknown' ]);

Tested with the above condition and it worked as expected.

I am still not clear about the difference between probe_event and status (which seems to bear the same values as probe_event).

I suggest you fiddle with it a bit ;)

As you noted however, google seems to have no clue about this case. Clearly the documentation is missing here.

HTH,

Ahmed.

Le jeu. 15 oct. 2020, à 08 h 15, Brian Bianchi via observium <observium@observium.org mailto:observium@observium.org > a écrit :

Thanks for the response Adam.

That sounds like exactly what I need.

Unfortunately I can find little to no documentation on how to set up an probe alert checker.

Can you perhaps point me in the right direction? My device is IP 10.160.96.177, and I am here (below) but not sure how to proceed. What would be my metric conditions?

Thanks a great deal for any info you can provide.

Brian Bianchi Senior Release Engineer d: +1 (781) 213-6483 e: bbianchi@vestmark.com mailto:bbianchi@vestmark.com

From: observium <observium-bounces@observium.org mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org > On Behalf Of Adam Armstrong via observium Sent: Tuesday, October 13, 2020 12:24 PM To: 'Observium' <observium@observium.org mailto:observium@observium.org > Cc: Adam Armstrong <adama@observium.org mailto:adama@observium.org > Subject: Re: [Observium] How to create Alert Checker for a specific port?

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Wrong type of port, the alert checker you’re looking at is checking a physical port.

To check an arbitrary TCP/UDP port you’ll want to add it as a check_tcp or check_udp probe, then the alert checker will test that probe’s status.

Adam.

From: observium <observium-bounces@observium.org mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org > On Behalf Of Brian Bianchi via observium Sent: 13 October 2020 17:15 To: observium@observium.org mailto:observium@observium.org Cc: Brian Bianchi <bbianchi@vestmark.com mailto:bbianchi@vestmark.com > Subject: [Observium] How to create Alert Checker for a specific port?

Hi folks,

I have an application running on port 7990.

I would like to create a custom Alert Checker to check if this port is functional.

I have read the documentation here:

https://docs.observium.org/alert_checker/

https://docs.observium.org/alerting_examples/

The “port is operational but functionally down” option looks like the one for me.

But how the heck do I select a specific port of 7990 to be monitored?

Thanks!

Brian Bianchi Senior Release Engineer o: +1 (781) 213-6483 e: bbianchi@vestmark.com mailto:bbianchi@vestmark.com

Learn more about Vestmark! View our introduction video https://vimeo.com/374253696 here.

Check us out on Social Media:

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Adam Armstrong

8:14 p.m.

Note that “notequals ok” will also trigger on unknown. :)

Adam.

From: observium observium-bounces@observium.org On Behalf Of Ahmed Rahal via observium Sent: 15 October 2020 16:06 To: Observium observium@observium.org Cc: Ahmed Rahal arahal@fibrenoire.ca Subject: Re: [Observium] How to create Alert Checker for a specific port?

Hi Brian,

I recently added probes to my setup and didn't yet add alerts for them.

Essentially, the condition can look like this:

probe_event notequals ok

According to the code I saw (but I am just guessing at this) you can have 'ok', 'warning', 'alert', 'unknown' (the typical return codes for a nagios plugin):

in includes/definitions/entities.inc.php

$config['entities'][$entity]['metrics']['probe_event'] = array('label' => 'Event', 'type' => 'string', 'values' => [ 'ok', 'warning', 'alert', 'unknown' ]);

Tested with the above condition and it worked as expected.

I am still not clear about the difference between probe_event and status (which seems to bear the same values as probe_event).

I suggest you fiddle with it a bit ;)

As you noted however, google seems to have no clue about this case. Clearly the documentation is missing here.

HTH,

Ahmed.

Le jeu. 15 oct. 2020, à 08 h 15, Brian Bianchi via observium <observium@observium.org mailto:observium@observium.org > a écrit :

Thanks for the response Adam.

That sounds like exactly what I need.

Unfortunately I can find little to no documentation on how to set up an probe alert checker.

Can you perhaps point me in the right direction? My device is IP 10.160.96.177, and I am here (below) but not sure how to proceed. What would be my metric conditions?

Thanks a great deal for any info you can provide.

Brian Bianchi Senior Release Engineer d: +1 (781) 213-6483 e: bbianchi@vestmark.com mailto:bbianchi@vestmark.com

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Wrong type of port, the alert checker you’re looking at is checking a physical port.

To check an arbitrary TCP/UDP port you’ll want to add it as a check_tcp or check_udp probe, then the alert checker will test that probe’s status.

Adam.

From: observium <observium-bounces@observium.org mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org > On Behalf Of Brian Bianchi via observium Sent: 13 October 2020 17:15 To: observium@observium.org mailto:observium@observium.org Cc: Brian Bianchi <bbianchi@vestmark.com mailto:bbianchi@vestmark.com > Subject: [Observium] How to create Alert Checker for a specific port?

Hi folks,

I have an application running on port 7990.

I would like to create a custom Alert Checker to check if this port is functional.

I have read the documentation here:

https://docs.observium.org/alert_checker/

https://docs.observium.org/alerting_examples/

The “port is operational but functionally down” option looks like the one for me.

But how the heck do I select a specific port of 7990 to be monitored?

Thanks!

Brian Bianchi Senior Release Engineer o: +1 (781) 213-6483 e: bbianchi@vestmark.com mailto:bbianchi@vestmark.com

Learn more about Vestmark! View our introduction video https://vimeo.com/374253696 here.

Check us out on Social Media:

https://www.linkedin.com/company/vestmark/

https://www.glassdoor.com/Overview/Working-at-Vestmark-EI_IE263618.11,19.htm

http://twitter.com/Vestmark

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