<div dir="ltr">Scot,<div><br></div><div>I figured there must be some way of doing this,</div><div>thanks for your help, this appears to be doing what I want.</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 8:41 AM, Scot Kreienkamp <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Scot.Kreienkamp@la-z-boy.com" target="_blank">Scot.Kreienkamp@la-z-boy.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">I think this is what you’re looking for, it’s from the help page on my xymon server. The help pages can be accessed from the menus at the top of the xymon
web pages on your server as well as <a href="http://xymon.com" target="_blank">xymon.com</a>.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">There are rules ... and exceptions: IGNORE<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">A common scenario is where you handle most of the alerts with a wildcard rule, but there is just that one exception where you don't want any cpu alerts from
the marketing server on Thursday afternoon. Then it is time for the IGNORE recipient:<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"> HOST=* COLOR=red<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"> IGNORE HOST=<a href="http://marketing.foo.com" target="_blank">marketing.foo.com</a> SERVICE=cpu TIME=4:1500:1800<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"> MAIL <a href="mailto:admin@foo.com" target="_blank">admin@foo.com</a><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><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:<a href="mailto:xymon-bounces@xymon.com" target="_blank">xymon-bounces@xymon.<wbr>com</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Boldt, David<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, September 21, 2016 5:54 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:xymon@xymon.com" target="_blank">xymon@xymon.com</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Xymon] Alert exclusions and Boolean processing<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">I have a display group where I would like to ignore alerts for a specific test on a specific host.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">excludes all of the tests run on "myhostname" as well as all of the "mytest" tests run<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p style="FONT-FAMILY:Arial"><span style="FONT-SIZE:8pt;FONT-FAMILY:Calibri;LETTER-SPACING:normal"><strong><span style="font-size:9pt">Scot Kreienkamp | Senior Systems Engineer | La-Z-Boy Corporate</span></strong><br>
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