[hobbit] Getting doubled alerts

ZanDAhaR allan at zandahar.net
Thu Oct 6 07:19:23 CEST 2005


Brehm, Scott wrote:

> Is it normal to get two alert messages if an event matches two rules? 
> Is there a keyword to suppress multiple alert emails from the same 
> event? I've been running 4.0 for a while, but just getting in to 
> configuring alerts. My hobbit-alerts.cfg includes the following:
>  
> HOST=* SERVICE=conn
>         MAIL sbrehm at titan.com <mailto:sbrehm at titan.com> COLOR=red
>  
> HOST=%atscm
>         MAIL sbrehm at titan.com <mailto:sbrehm at titan.com> COLOR=red
>         MAIL person2 at titan.com <mailto:person2 at titan.com> COLOR=red
>  
> HOST=%atscs
>         MAIL sbrehm at titan.com <mailto:sbrehm at titan.com> COLOR=red
>         MAIL person3 at titan.com <mailto:person3 at titan.com> COLOR=red
>  
> I want alerts for any connection problems, but only want alerts for 
> other hosts if they come from two specific sets of hosts. 
> Unfortunately I'm getting a match for both the first rule and the 
> second or third rule when there is conn alert for one of the two. I'm 
> now using EXSERVICE=conn for myself on rules two and three, but still 
> curious.
>  
>
> Scott Brehm
>
> IT Manager
> L3 Communications - Titan (ATS/ATAG)
> 3394 Carmel Mountain Rd, San Diego CA, 92121
> 858-720-4035
>
>  

There is/was a STOP statement on a rule I think but not sure if its 
still there and if it will do what you want it to

Allan
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