[hobbit] recovery messages

Alan Sparks asparks at doublesparks.net
Fri Sep 4 16:15:44 CEST 2009


This is a known problem with the alert mechanism.  I posted an analysis
of why (I believe) it happens in this mailing list message:
http://www.hswn.dk/hobbiton/2008/07/msg00132.html

Unfortunately, there appears to be no way in current state to work
around the problem.
-Alan

Johan Sjöberg wrote:
>
> We had the same problem. We “solved” it by changing yellow to an “OK
> color” in hobbitserver.cfg, so now it sends out recovered when it goes
> from red to yellow. But if you have alerts on yellow, you probably
> don’t want to do that.
>
>  
>
> /Johan
>
>  
>
> *From:* Larry Barber [mailto:lebarber at gmail.com]
> *Sent:* den 4 september 2009 15:59
> *To:* hobbit
> *Subject:* [hobbit] recovery messages
>
>  
>
> I've noticed that if I have a situation where I have red alert that
> turns yellow before finally returning to green that no recovery
> messages are being sent. Alert notifications are only being sent on
> reds, not yellow. I suspect that when the red turns to a yellow that
> Hobbit is "forgetting" that it sent out the notification when it
> turned red since it is not sending them out on yellows. Does anybody
> out there know how to fix this?
>
> Thanks,
> Larry Barber
>





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