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--></style></head><body lang="EN-ZA" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal">Good day</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">I have a test that determines I a remote web service is responding. The webservice is managed by someone outside of my environment.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">The test fails a couple of times during the day, manual tests confirm that the xymon test is ok. The webservice will fail for maybe 30 to 60 minutes then will restore.</p><p class="MsoNormal">
If the Xymon test runs while the service is unavailable, I will receive a alert and by the time I can investigate all is ok. </p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">I added the DURATION>30 or DURATION>1h to the alerts.cnf to only send me alerts if the service has been down for a period of time, but I still receive the alert as soon as Xymon detects the problem.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">Is there another way to delay alerts or do I have some error in my configs?</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">My alerts.cfg</p><p class="MsoNormal">==============</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">PAGE=%prod SERVICE=institution,wsdl</p><p class="MsoNormal"> MAIL <a href="mailto:cellno-xymon@sms.domain.co.za">cellno-xymon@sms.domain.co.za</a> DURATION>1h REPEAT 30m COLOR=red FORMAT=SMS</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> SCRIPT /usr/lib/xymon/server/ext/smsplus.sh <a href="mailto:cell-xymon@sms.domain.co.za">cell-xymon@sms.domain.co.za</a> DURATION>1h REPEAT 30m COLOR=red</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">
Set debug option in tasks.cfg</p><p class="MsoNormal">CMD xymond_channel --channel=page --log=$XYMONSERVERLOGS/alert.log xymond_alert --checkpoint-file=$XYMONTMP/alert.chk --checkpoint-interval=600 –debug</p><p class="MsoNormal">
</p><p class="MsoNormal">Alert.log</p><p class="MsoNormal">=======</p><p class="MsoNormal">10687 2013-03-07 09:29:30 xymond_alert: Got message 237 @@page#237/<a href="http://domain.co.za">domain.co.za</a>|1362641370.822859|196.14.77.34|<a href="http://domain.co.za">domain.co.za</a>|wsdl|196.14.77.34|1362643170|red|green|1362641370|prod|555815|linux|linux||</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">10687 2013-03-07 09:29:30 startpos 2171, fillpos 2171, endpos -1</p><p class="MsoNormal">10687 2013-03-07 09:29:30 Got page message from domain.co.za:wsdl</p><p class="MsoNormal">10687 2013-03-07 09:29:30 Alert status changed from 0 to 1</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">10687 2013-03-07 09:29:30 Found a first matching rule</p><p class="MsoNormal">10687 2013-03-07 09:29:30 No more secondary matching rule</p><p class="MsoNormal">10687 2013-03-07 09:29:30 No files modified, skipping reload of /usr/lib/xymon/server/etc/alerts.cfg</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">10687 2013-03-07 09:29:30 No files modified, skipping reload of /usr/lib/xymon/server/etc/holidays.cfg</p><p class="MsoNormal">10687 2013-03-07 09:29:30 Found a first matching rule</p><p class="MsoNormal">
10687 2013-03-07 09:29:30 No more secondary matching rule</p><p class="MsoNormal">10687 2013-03-07 09:29:30 Found a first matching rule</p><p class="MsoNormal">10687 2013-03-07 09:29:30 1 alerts to go</p><p class="MsoNormal">
12977 2013-03-07 09:29:30 send_alert domain.co.za:wsdl state 0</p><p class="MsoNormal">12977 2013-03-07 09:29:30 Found a first matching rule</p><p class="MsoNormal">12977 2013-03-07 09:29:30 repeat <a href="http://domain.co.za">domain.co.za</a>|wsdl|mail|<a href="mailto:operations@domain.co.za">operations@domain.co.za</a> at 0</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">12977 2013-03-07 09:29:30 Alert for domain.co.za:wsdl to <a href="mailto:operations@domain.co.za">operations@domain.co.za</a></p><p class="MsoNormal">10687 2013-03-07 09:29:30 Found a first matching rule</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">10687 2013-03-07 09:29:30 No more secondary matching rule</p><p class="MsoNormal">10687 2013-03-07 09:29:30 Want msg 238, startpos 2171, fillpos 2171, endpos -1, usedbytes=0, bufleft=264068</p><p class="MsoNormal">
12977 2013-03-07 09:29:30 repeat <a href="http://domain.co.za">domain.co.za</a>|wsdl|mail|REPEAT at 0</p><p class="MsoNormal">12977 2013-03-07 09:29:30 Alert for domain.co.za:wsdl to REPEAT</p><p class="MsoNormal">12977 2013-03-07 09:29:30 repeat <a href="http://domain.co.za">domain.co.za</a>|wsdl|mail|30m at 0</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">12977 2013-03-07 09:29:30 Alert for domain.co.za:wsdl to 30m</p><p class="MsoNormal">12977 2013-03-07 09:29:30 repeat <a href="http://domain.co.za">domain.co.za</a>|wsdl|mail|<a href="mailto:cellno-xymon@sms.conclude.co.za">cellno-xymon@sms.conclude.co.za</a> at 0</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">12977 2013-03-07 09:29:30 Alert for domain.co.za:wsdl to <a href="mailto:cellno-xymon@sms.conclude.co.za">cellno-xymon@sms.conclude.co.za</a></p><p class="MsoNormal">12977 2013-03-07 09:29:30 repeat <a href="http://domain.co.za">domain.co.za</a>|wsdl|mail|REPEAT at 0</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">12977 2013-03-07 09:29:30 Alert for domain.co.za:wsdl to REPEAT</p><p class="MsoNormal">12977 2013-03-07 09:29:30 repeat <a href="http://domain.co.za">domain.co.za</a>|wsdl|mail|30m at 0</p><p class="MsoNormal">
12977 2013-03-07 09:29:30 Alert for domain.co.za:wsdl to 30m</p><p class="MsoNormal">12977 2013-03-07 09:29:30 repeat <a href="http://domain.co.za">domain.co.za</a>|wsdl|script|<a href="mailto:cellno-xymon@sms.conclude.co.za">cellno-xymon@sms.conclude.co.za</a> at 0</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">12977 2013-03-07 09:29:30 Alert for domain.co.za:wsdl to <a href="mailto:cellno-xymon@sms.conclude.co.za">cellno-xymon@sms.conclude.co.za</a></p><p class="MsoNormal">12977 2013-03-07 09:29:30 repeat <a href="http://domain.co.za">domain.co.za</a>|wsdl|script|REPEAT at 0</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">12977 2013-03-07 09:29:30 Alert for domain.co.za:wsdl to REPEAT</p><p class="MsoNormal">12977 2013-03-07 09:29:30 repeat <a href="http://domain.co.za">domain.co.za</a>|wsdl|script|30m at 0</p><p class="MsoNormal">
12977 2013-03-07 09:29:30 Alert for domain.co.za:wsdl to 30m</p><p class="MsoNormal">12977 2013-03-07 09:29:30 No more secondary matching rule</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Myriad Web Pro"">Kind Regards,</span></p>
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