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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">Hello,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">We have a very common situation where there are 2 servers, one being the production server, and the other its “spare”. If anything happens to the production server, we need people to be
alerted even if it’s the middle of the night. On the other hand, if the spare server has problems, we may not need to wake people up.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">The server roles swap periodically (the one that is production this month may be spare next month, and vice versa).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">I can tell which one is production by watching for the existence of certain “flag files”, but I can imagine other places would have different mechanisms.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">The question is: is there a way in xymon, to make an alert conditional on some other piece of information? Some way to handle this kind of situation, where the “decision” on the criticality
of a server is outside xymon?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">I think I could handle this by sending the alert to a script, and having logic in the script to send the communication or not. But I’m wondering if there is a better way, and I imagine
that this kind of situation is common enough that people here must have seen it.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">Thanks,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">glauber<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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