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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">First let me say that I am different – all of our alerts are done via external scripts that look like this:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">SCRIPT /home/xymon/server/ext/pg/exalert_WINPURPLE purple_alert COLOR=purple DURATION>30 REPEAT=12h FORMAT=TEXT UNMATCHED<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">SCRIPT /home/xymon/server/ext/pg/exalert_DBACRIT disk_alert DURATION>20 REPEAT=15 COLOR=red SERVICE=disk FORMAT=TEXT UNMATCHED<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">SCRIPT /home/xymon/server/ext/pg/exwarn_DBACRIT disk_warn DURATION>30 REPEAT=8h COLOR=yellow SERVICE=disk FORMAT=TEXT UNMATCHED<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">STOP<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">My issue is with the config report (this has always been a sore spot for me for a number of reasons) where the information provided could be better.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">Ex.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black">purple_alert (S,U)</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:red">disk_warn (U)</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">Normally, this would be ok, but in my case the alerts.cfg file has a large number of host, page, or other sections with scripts that also use “disk_alert” or “disk_warn” as the receivers.
If the config report could include the line number from the alerts.cfg it would be most helpful when alert rules apply (unintentionally) multiple times.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">My age old question(s), which I asked years ago and still don’t know the answer:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""><span style="mso-list:Ignore">-<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">Why do some rules show up in red?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">What is the meaning of the (S,U) or (U) in the config report?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#44546A">Thanks,
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#44546A">John
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Upcoming PTO:
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#44546A">John Rothlisberger<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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