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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Hi.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1F497D">How does it look in the ”Info” page for that server? Both alert lines would match that server, thus giving you an alert every hour, with an extra e-mail once per day, after a day, unless the server
is in the printers page.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1F497D">If you don’t want the second alert line to match that server/test, you need to exclude it.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1F497D">/Johan<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> xymon-bounces@xymon.com [mailto:xymon-bounces@xymon.com]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Carl Inglis<br>
<b>Sent:</b> den 15 december 2011 11:03<br>
<b>To:</b> xymon@xymon.com<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Xymon] Alerting - I'm not doing it right...<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Hi folks,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">I’m sure this is going to be something really silly that I’ve missed – but I’ve been pulling my hair out over this one for a couple of days now.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB">alerts.cfg<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""><a href="mailto:$EMAIL_ALERT=carl.inglis@rakon.com">$EMAIL_ALERT=carl.inglis@rakon.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">$LIN_WINDOWS_PROBLEMS=$EMAIL_ALERT<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">HOST=%lin(.*) SERVICE=%win(.*)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> MAIL $LIN_WINDOWS_PROBLEMS REPEAT=24h DURATION>1d RECOVERED STOP<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">HOST=* EXPAGE=printers<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> MAIL $EMAIL_ALERT REPEAT=1h RECOVERED UNMATCHED STOP<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">When the host “lin-apps-01” has a yellow alert on it’s “winUpdates” services, I expect it to shout about it once every 24h. It is, however, shouting about it once every hour.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">It’s clear that the first HOST line is being ignored – I suspect my regex is incorrect in some way.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Any thoughts or pointers would be appreciated.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><br>
Carl<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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