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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 xymon.com.<o:p></o:p></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<o:p></o:p></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:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> HOST=* COLOR=red<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> IGNORE HOST=marketing.foo.com SERVICE=cpu TIME=4:1500:1800<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> MAIL admin@foo.com<o:p></o:p></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:xymon-bounces@xymon.com]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Boldt, David<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, September 21, 2016 5:54 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> xymon@xymon.com<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Xymon] Alert exclusions and Boolean processing<o:p></o:p></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.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">It appears that the following definition<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">DISPLAYGROUP=%My\sGroup EXHOST=myhostname EXSERVICE=mytest COLOR=red<o:p></o:p></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<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">on the other hosts in that group.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">How do I arrange for these test exclusions to be logical ANDs?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"> -- David Boldt<br>
<<a href="mailto:dboldt@usgs.gov" target="_blank">dboldt@usgs.gov</a>><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"> --<span style="font-size:9.5pt">Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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