Re: [Bigsister-devel] What are the new uxmon event() and perfreport() for?

[Thomas A. <ae...@gr...>]

On Fri, 2001-12-07 at 00:01, Jacob Gore wrote:
> Does event() in the new uxmon/Monitor.pm allow us to write a monitor that 
> signals an event through bsmon (and passed on via Rsync) without causing a 
> state change?

That is exactly what event() was meant for. The code is not complete
yet, however. The features will be:

  - uxmon monitors can send events via event() (basically an event is
    pretty near to a syslog event, thus it is associated with
    a host/check, has some priority and some text)
  - uxmon will log the event via syslog and as well send it to the
    Big Sister server
  - bsmon will provide an event log (probably the events will appear
    in 'bshistory' and each HTML detail status page will list the last
    few events for a host/check)
  - events should become acknowledgeable (probably not 0.98)
  - the alarm generator should also be able to send event based alarms
    (probably we'll just send events through the same filter rules
    already set up in bb_event_generator.cfg)
  - oh, yes, and events should be rsync-ed too (this is one thing I
    nearly forgot)

> That would be REALLY handy for things like syslog; a new error line is an 
> event, but it doesn't really have a state over time.

In future both approaches will be supported.

> If so, is this stuff ready? Is there an official release planned?

I am currently adding support for events as a feature of the new monitor
infrastructure (known before as the "new SNMP monitor" :-)). The code
is not complete yet and if things go on as slow as they started the next
release (a beta release) will be somewhen around end of January.

Best regards,
Tom

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