notify_when_flapping

[barry.mi...@gmail.com]

I'm having a few issues getting god to notify me when a process is
flapping. I've been trying to get the notify_when_flapping behavior
working with the following:

w.behavior(:notify_when_flapping) do |nwf|
nwf.failures = 2
nwf.seconds = 20
nwf.notifier = God.contacts["foo"]
end

This is all based on playing around with the god code, so I'm a little
unsure if this is the right way to go about things. The
NotifyWhenFlapping behavior is only valid if "The 'notifier' must have
a method 'notify' which takes 1 or variable args", the email notify
method takes 5 arguments. I've made a few changes to
notify_when_flapping.rb to make this run, and it works, but I'm sure
this shouldn't all be necessary.

Am I missing something here? Has anyone else managed to have god
notify when a process is flapping?

Thanks,

Barry

[Aman Gupta]

Did you have any luck getting notify_when_flapping to work?

Aman

On Jun 16, 3:19 am, "barry.mitchel...@gmail.com"

[barry.mi...@gmail.com]

On Jul 7, 5:37 am, Aman Gupta <themastermi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Did you have any luck getting notify_when_flapping to work?
>

I still have it working using the changes I mentioned previously, but
as I said before, it doesn't seem the "right" way to get this working.
If anyone has any suggestions or alternative methods then I'd like to
know.

Thanks,

Barry

[Tom Werner]

That behavior is deprecated. To use notifications all you have to do is specify a

c.notify = ...

line in any condition that you want to trigger notification. If you have a contact named 'tom' you can just do

c.notify = 'tom'

or for multiple contacts 'tom' and 'jake' do

c.notify = %w{tom jake}

or take a look here for an even more powerful way to specify

http://github.com/mojombo/god/tree/master/test/configs/contact/contact.god#L58

Tom

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Tom Preston-Werner
github.com/mojombo

[Barry Mitchelson]

On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 5:14 PM, Tom Werner <moj...@gmail.com> wrote:
> That behavior is deprecated. To use notifications all you have to do is
> specify a
>
> c.notify = ...
>
> line in any condition that you want to trigger notification. If you have a
> contact named 'tom' you can just do
>
> c.notify = 'tom'
>
> or for multiple contacts 'tom' and 'jake' do
>
> c.notify = %w{tom jake}
>
> or take a look here for an even more powerful way to specify
>
> http://github.com/mojombo/god/tree/master/test/configs/contact/contact.god#L58
>

Thank you. I've now got it working using the following :

w.transition(:up, :unmonitored) do |on|
on.condition(:flapping) do |c|
c.notify = "barry"
c.to_state = [:start, :restart]
c.times = 5
c.within = 60.seconds
end
end

but I expected to be able to do this:

w.lifecycle do |on|
on.condition(:flapping) do |c|
c.to_state = [:start, :restart]
c.times = 5
c.within = 60.seconds
c.transition = :unmonitored
c.notify = "barry"
end
end

After looking through the code I can see why this doesn't send out the
notification, but is this intended behaviour?

Barry