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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Hi all,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Xymon 4.3.7, testing cpu load from vmstat rrd file works great except for the actual alert.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I was expecting the string 'CPU Idle load Normal at &V%" HOST=%^hostprd0' to appear in the alert<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>but it doesn't. The Subject line in email shows the correct color (YELLOW), but the body says green.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The text string doesn't show up in BBALPHAMSG. Any suggestions?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>analysis.cfg<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> # Use in RRD dataset from vmstat<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> DS cpu vmstat.rrd:cpu_idl >=10 COLOR=green "TEXT=CPU Idle load Normal at &V%" HOST=%^hostprd0.*<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> DS cpu vmstat.rrd:cpu_idl <10 COLOR=yellow "TEXT=CPU Idle load High at &V%" HOST=%^hostprd0.*<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> DS cpu vmstat.rrd:cpu_idl <=5 COLOR=red "TEXT=CPU Idle load Critical at &V%" HOST=%^hostprd0.*<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>alerts.cfg<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>HOST=%^hostprd0.*<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> MAIL <a href="mailto:greg.shea@emc.com">greg.shea@emc.com</a> REPEAT=30m RECOVERED SERVICE=cpu COLOR=red,yellow<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>email notification<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>-----Original Message-----<br>From: Xymon Admin Dur1 Account [mailto:xymon@emc.com] <br>Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2012 4:45 PM<br>To: shea, greg<br>Subject: Xymon [186647] sabbeaprd02:cpu warning (YELLOW) [cfid:1304]<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>green Thu Sep 27 16:44:30 EDT 2012 up: 12 days, 0 users, 123 procs, load=11.10 System clock is 0 seconds off<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>top - 16:44:32 up 12 days, 8:29, 0 users, load average: 13.66, 11.28, 10.39<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Tasks: 121 total, 2 running, 119 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Cpu(s): 27.7%us, 1.7%sy, 0.1%ni, 69.1%id, 0.1%wa, 0.2%hi, 1.2%si, 0.0%st<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Mem: 8175452k total, 7177740k used, 997712k free, 53092k buffers<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Swap: 4192956k total, 930596k used, 3262360k free, 534092k cached<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>..snip..<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Xymon environment variables<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>RECIPIENT=<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>BBCOLORLEVEL=yellow<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>BBALPHAMSG=sabbeaprd02:cpu yellow [186647]<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>green Thu Sep 27 16:44:30 EDT 2012 up: 12 days, 0 users, 123 procs, load=11.10<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>System clock is 0 seconds off<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>top - 16:44:32 up 12 days, 8:29, 0 users, load average: 13.66, 11.28, 10.39<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Tasks: 121 total, 2 running, 119 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Cpu(s): 27.7%us, 1.7%sy, 0.1%ni, 69.1%id, 0.1%wa, 0.2%hi, 1.2%si, 0.0%st<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Mem: 8175452k total, 7177740k used, 997712k free, 53092k buffers<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Swap: 4192956k total, 930596k used, 3262360k free, 534092k cached<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>..snip..<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>