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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">That’s a great idea Ralph!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Xymon [mailto:xymon-bounces@xymon.com]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Ralph Mitchell<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, September 16, 2015 11:16 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Betsy Schwartz<br>
<b>Cc:</b> xymon@xymon.com<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Xymon] Organizing alerts.cfg - any good ideas?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">You can break it out into multiple files. Just put a line like this in the original alerts.cfg:<br>
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directory /home/xymon/server/etc/alerts.d<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">and it will pull in all the files under that directory tree. That allows you to split out into projects or whatever grouping takes your fancy.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">Ralph Mitchell<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 12:12 PM, Betsy Schwartz <<a href="mailto:betsy.schwartz@gmail.com" target="_blank">betsy.schwartz@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">We're getting to the point where our alerts.cfg is a bit awkward, with lots of exceptions<o:p></o:p></p>
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Does anyone have any way of organizing alerts.cfg that they really like?<o:p></o:p></p>
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