keeping up with the status of alerts

[Stephen John Smoogen]

On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 3:04 PM, Mike McGrath <mmcgrath at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Feb 2009, seth vidal wrote:
>
>> Hi folks,
>>  I'd like to try something new. We've been getting a fair number of
>> alerts via nagios/zabbix/etc. Sometimes, due to the conversation in
>> #fedora-admin it is hard to tell who is working on what and what is in
>> need of immediate attention.
>>
>>  I'd like to suggest we use #fedora-noc for 'X is down, I'm working on
>> it' and discussion for immediate crisises, problems.
>>
>> I sometimes have a hard time knowing what I should look at and/or what
>> is an expected alert due to work being done. So it would be best to keep
>> the noise down in #fedora-noc unless it is directly related to an
>> outage.
>>
>> What do y'all think?
>>
>
> We've tried a couple of times in the past to better get a handle on this
> problem, never really tried a new IRC room though so I'm all for trying
> something new.  I've already /join'ed it.

Could we get a bot to post those posts to a list or something. That
way if someone is working on it.. gets hooked into it and then skvidal
comes on and wants to know why xyzzy is down.. he can quickly find
out.


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