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color:#1F497D'>I believe you want to look in the man pages for alerting for the
DELAY option.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Mark Stoltzfus
[mailto:mark.stoltzfus@pmigroup.com] <br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, March 10, 2008 3:40 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> hobbit@hswn.dk<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [hobbit] Waiting longer than one polling failure to alert<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> </span>
<span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>My apologies if
this is covered in the docs or in past discussions,</span> <span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>my google-fu</span> <span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>hasn’t come through
for me on this one. We’re running</span> <span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>4.1.2p1, and we have several troublesome hosts
that, for whatever reason, are constantly experiencing periodic disconnects
with the hobbit server. </span> <span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif"'>I’m not too concerned about the disconnects (we have some
new firewalls that are probably to blame, and by all other indications, the
hosts and services are fine), but we’re constantly getting alerts. Is
there any way to make hobbit alert on a</span> <span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>host or</span> <span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>service, only after it’s failed</span> <span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>two or three times in
a row?</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Thanks in
advance,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Mark</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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