[hobbit] No pages when going from yellow to red
Pat Vaughan
hobbit at pvaughan.us
Mon Nov 7 23:10:20 CET 2005
> So you'll now get an alert when it goes yellow, and another
> when it goes red (if your configuration includes alerts for
> these colors, obviously).
That sounds like it should fix my problem perfectly.
> I think the new code strikes a sensible balance between getting
> the necessary alerts and not being flooded with them. The current
> version works the way it does because I did not want to be
> flooded with alerts by a state that kept on changing between
> yellow and red - eg. a disk that is filled just about the
> limit between the warning and panic levels. The new code will
> give you that one extra alert telling you that the situation
> is critical, but once it has done that it will obey the
> REPEAT setting and only send you an alert every 30 minutes
> (or whatever your REPEAT interval is).
I like it, if we get a page and don't fix whatever is wrong so it goes
back to a "green" state we should be flogged anyway. I'll be sure to grab
the next version as soon as it's available.
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