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<div dir="ltr">I'm a bit of a Xymon newbie, but haven't seen any
info on this...
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<div>As you know, when a test goes into not responding status,
the description associated with it stays as whatever it was
when the test last successfully transmitted data. We have our
Xymon set up to send alert emails when a test status is purple
(our tests are run by a script that has been known to get
stuck once or twice in the past, we want to know when this
happens so we can bounce it) and some of the recipients are
understandably confused when they get alert emails where the
test status is correct in the subject line, but the status as
described in the email body shows something like "check
succeeded OK" rather than something like "Error: Did not
receive any data from this test".</div>
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<div>Does anyone know if it's possible to automatically change
the description text of a test when the status changes to
purple, and if so, how? </div>
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This sounds like it would be better done with a custom alert script.
You could check whether the colour is purple and add/change the
notification message as appropriate.<br>
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