<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'><span><br>Thanks for the responses guys.<br>I am making things different now, but I'm not sure that it is progress.<br><br>so now, my alerts.cfg only has the entries listed below.<br>I am not certain of how to designate a default alert.<br><br>But now, when I run a test, I don't get ANY email notices sent.<br>So, I believe I am excluding the subpages correctly, which is good for me.<br><br>But I am not generating any alerts when my 'System' page turns red.<br>I think it is because I have nothing but subpages on each of my 'System' pages.<br><br>Do you have any advice on generating alerts from a page like that ?<br>I want to get an alert from my "b16Env1" subpage (see the hosts snippet below).<br><br>thanks!<br><br><br>Here is my alerts.cfg file<br>------------------------------------------<br>PAGE=ovmEnvironments/b16Env1 COLOR=red RECOVERED<br>PAGE=ovmEnvironments/b16Env1/b16Env1Hypers COLOR=red RECOVERED<br>PAGE=ovmEnvironments/b17Env1/b16Env1Hosts COLOR=red RECOVERED<br>PAGE=ovmEnvironments/b16Env1/b16Env1Admin COLOR=red RECOVERED<br>PAGE=ovmEnvironments/b16Env1/b16Env1Apps/b16Env1IcApps COLOR=red RECOVERED<br>PAGE=ovmEnvironments/b16Env1/b16Env1Apps/b16Env1TechApps COLOR=red RECOVERED<br>PAGE=ovmEnvironments COLOR=red RECOVERED<br><br>MAIL xymon@mycompany.com REPEAT=5<br>EXPAGE=ovmEnvironments/b16Env1/b16Env1Apps/b16Env1IcApps <br>EXPAGE=ovmEnvironments/b16Env1/b16Env1Apps/b16Env1TechApps <br>#-------------------<br><br><br>and here is the test output from sending one http error from a low-level subpage<br>#-------------------<br>2011-06-16 08:18:51 Using default environment file /home/gjsimpso/xymon/xymonServer/server/etc/xymonserver.cfg<br>00026390 2011-06-16 08:18:51 send_alert v_TS_ODSM:http state Paging<br>00026390 2011-06-16 08:18:51 Matching host:service:page 'v_TS_ODSM:http:ovmEnvironments/b16Env1/b16Env1Apps/b16Env1TechApps' against rule line 66<br>00026390 2011-06-16 08:18:51 Failed 'PAGE=ovmEnvironments/b16Env1/b16Env1Apps/b16Env1FSApps COLOR=red RECOVERED' (pagename not in include list)<br>00026390 2011-06-16 08:18:51 Matching host:service:page 'v_TS_ODSM:http:ovmEnvironments/b16Env1/b16Env1Apps/b16Env1TechApps' against rule line 67<br>00026390 2011-06-16 08:18:51 Failed 'PAGE=ovmEnvironments/b16Env1/b16Env1Apps/b16Env1CrmApps COLOR=red RECOVERED' (pagename not in include list)<br>00026390 2011-06-16 08:18:51 Matching host:service:page 'v_TS_ODSM:http:ovmEnvironments/b16Env1/b16Env1Apps/b16Env1TechApps' against rule line 68<br>00026390 2011-06-16 08:18:51 Failed 'PAGE=ovmEnvironments/b16Env1/b16Env1Apps/b16Env1FinsApps COLOR=red RECOVERED' (pagename not in include list)<br>00026390 2011-06-16 08:18:51 Matching host:service:page 'v_TS_ODSM:http:ovmEnvironments/b16Env1/b16Env1Apps/b16Env1TechApps' against rule line 69<br>00026390 2011-06-16 08:18:51 Failed 'PAGE=ovmEnvironments/b16Env1/b16Env1Apps/b16Env1HcmApps COLOR=red RECOVERED' (pagename not in include list)<br>00026390 2011-06-16 08:18:51 Matching host:service:page 'v_TS_ODSM:http:ovmEnvironments/b16Env1/b16Env1Apps/b16Env1TechApps' against rule line 70<br>00026390 2011-06-16 08:18:51 Failed 'PAGE=ovmEnvironments/b16Env1/b16Env1Apps/b16Env1ScmApps COLOR=red RECOVERED' (pagename not in include list)<br>00026390 2011-06-16 08:18:51 Matching host:service:page 'v_TS_ODSM:http:ovmEnvironments/b16Env1/b16Env1Apps/b16Env1TechApps' against rule line 71<br>00026390 2011-06-16 08:18:51 Failed 'PAGE=ovmEnvironments/b16Env1/b16Env1Apps/b16Env1IcApps COLOR=red RECOVERED' (pagename not in include list)<br>00026390 2011-06-16 08:18:51 Matching host:service:page 'v_TS_ODSM:http:ovmEnvironments/b16Env1/b16Env1Apps/b16Env1TechApps' against rule line 72<br>00026390 2011-06-16 08:18:51 *** Match with 'PAGE=ovmEnvironments/b16Env1/b16Env1Apps/b16Env1TechApps COLOR=red RECOVERED' ***<br><br><br>I have not changed my hosts.cfg file (this is a snippet)<br>#-------------------<br>page ovmEnvironments OVMEnvironments<br>title OVM Environments<br><br><br>##################################################################################################<br># Env1 starts here<br>##################################################################################################<br>subpage b16Env1 B16Env1<br>title B16 Env1<br>subparent b16Env1 b16Env1Hypers Hypervisors<br>title B16 Env1 Hypervisors group-compress <font size="+1">Hypervisors</font><br>0.0.0.6 appohs-crm-machine06<br>0.0.0.7 authohs-crm-machine07<br>...<br><br>subparent b16Env1 b16Env1Hosts Hosts<br>title B16 Env1 Hosts group-compress <font size="+1">OVM Hosts</font><br>0.0.0.8 v_resourceWebgate_machine08<br>0.0.0.9 v_challengWebgate_machine09<br>...<br><br>subparent b16Env1 b16Env1Admin Weblogic Admin/EM Pages<br>title B16 Env1 Weblogic Administration group-compress <font size="+1">All Admin Consoles</font><br>0.0.0.91 v_BI_ADMIN # http://user:pswd@machine:port/console<br>0.0.0.90 v_CRM_ADMIN # http://user:pswd@machine:port/console<br>...<br><br>##################################################################################################<br># Env2 starts here<br>##################################################################################################<br>subpage b16Env2 B16Env2<br>title B16 Env2<br>...<br><br><br><br><br><br>--<br>Greg<br><br></span><br>----- Original Message -----<br>From: "Scot Kreienkamp" <SKreien@la-z-boy.com><br>To: kconnell@ryerson.ca, gsimpson@comcast.net, xymon-bounces@xymon.com, "Xymon Email List" <xymon@xymon.com><br>Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2011 6:45:24 AM<br>Subject: RE: [Xymon] alert collectionsif I understand<br><br>I just removed the default alert section. That way I only get notified<br>for systems/pages that I specifically call out in the alerts.cfg file.<br><br>Scot Kreienkamp<br><br><br>-----Original Message-----<br>From: xymon-bounces@xymon.com [mailto:xymon-bounces@xymon.com] On Behalf<br>Of kconnell@ryerson.ca<br>Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2011 7:52 AM<br>To: gsimpson@comcast.net; xymon-bounces@xymon.com; Xymon Email List<br>Subject: Re: [Xymon] alert collectionsif I understand<br><br>We currently monitor (ping) our AP's and it would really suck to get<br>over 1000 emails if/when something goes down, so I exclude them as<br>follows:<br><br>You can exclude pages from you alerts in two ways:<br><br>1.) above all other alerts add:<br>PAGE=<yourpage/yoursubpage><br>Add nothing for action, and that's it.<br><br>2.) On your bottom (default) alert action append the following:<br>EXPAGE=<yourpage/yoursubpage><br><br><br><br>Ken Connell<br>Intermediate Network Engineer<br>Computer & Communication Services<br>Ryerson University<br>350 Victoria St<br>RM AB50<br>Toronto, Ont<br>M5B 2K3<br>416-979-5000 x6709<br><br><br></div></body></html>