[Xymon] Too many alerts per host

[Stef Coene]

On Tuesday 18 November 2014 10:04:17 David Fogarty wrote:
> Hi,
> Is there a way to receive only one alert when a host goes red/purple,
> rather than a bunch?  It's frustrating to receive 5+ pages when only one
> is needed.  It's especially frustrating when you pull 4 hosts offline and
> accidentally send 20+ pages to your team.
> 
> BigBrother did this with "pagetype: HOST".
> 
> The only options I see in Xymon are adding an elaborate set of
> dependencies that will be cumbersome to maintain, or alerting through
> SCRIPT with some form of smart locking in that script.
We use an external scripts for alerting.  The script uses a lock file and only 
if the lock file is older then 5 minutes, the alert is processed.


Stef