--On Tuesday, October 23, 2001 4:31 PM +0200 willem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> hostgroup mailservers 10.0.135.1
>
> watch mailservers
> service pop
> interval 5m
> monitor pop3.monitor -p 25 -t 60
> period wd {Mon-Fri} hr {9am-12pm}
> alertafter 10m
> alertevery 1h
> alert mail.alert realother@localhost
>
> what's wrong here? the above is my best gues but I tryed a lot. syslog
> tells me:
> Oct 23 14:23:02 localhost mon[24217]: failure for mailservers pop
> 1003839782 10.0.135.1
>
> any Ideas?
>
I'm not sure what the problem you're having is. Here are the potential
problems I see.
First, are you really running a pop3 server on port 25 of your mail server?
I doubt it. You probably don't need to specify a port, unless you run your
pop3 server on a port other then the default (110)
Second, your period is from 9AM - Noon, and your failure was at 2:23pm. So
it logged a failure but didn't send an alert. If you want 9AM-Midnight,
you should say 12am.
Finally, 'alertafter 10m' means it would only send an alert after the
service has been failing for 10 minutes. Depending on exactly how
precisely the monitor gets run, and how long it takes to return, this might
be 2 failures in a row, or 3. I suggest 'alertafter 3' if thats the
behavior you want.
-David
David Nolan <*> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
curses: May you be forced to grep the termcap of an unclean yacc while
a herd of rogue emacs fsck your troff and vgrind your pathalias!
