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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="#1f497d" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">That’s what I started with, and that doesn’t work.  Script doesn’t acknowledge the DURATION or REPEAT keywords.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";font-weight:bold">From:</span></font></b><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Xymon
 [mailto:xymon-bounces@xymon.com] <b><span style="font-weight:bold">On Behalf Of </span>
</b>Erik<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Sent:</span></b> Friday, February 10, 2017 7:26 AM<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">To:</span></b> xymon@xymon.com<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Xymon] Limiting repeated messages<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Using what you'd provided, here's what I'd put in your alerts.cfg<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<pre style="white-space:pre-wrap"><font size="2" color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">HOST=NMSRep SERVICE=LogMasterErr,NMSRepScheduler,NMSRepTask,RepDisc_Issues COLOR=red,yellow,purple RECOVERED<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre>
<pre><font size="2" color="black" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">    SCRIPT /usr/local/scripts/<a href="http://html_mail.pl">html_mail.pl</a> $NG-NMSRep-DEV DURATION>7d DURATION<14d REPEAT=1d<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre>
<pre style="white-space:pre-wrap"><font size="2" color="black" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">I moved the duration rules down to the "SCRIPT" line.  I also added a 2nd duration rule to demonstrate you could time box this.  The script will fire once per day for 7 days, after 7 days.</span></font><font color="black"><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></font></pre>
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