Limiting Alerting by recipient?

[Eric van de Meerakker]

Hello,


I've now got SMS alerting in Hobbit configured and running (using the
smstools package and a Falcom Samba 55 USB modem under SuSE Linux
Enterprise Server 9), and I'm experiencing a very different behaviour
for Hobbit from what I was accustomed to in Big Brother.

Basically, in Hobbit I get an SMS alert for every host/test combination
that fails. We have situations where that generates about 10 SMS
messages for a single true error. Sending ten messages where one would
suffice seems a bit wasteful.

In Big brother the default behaviour was to send one SMS message only,
upon the first fail, and then suspend sending more messages to the same
recipient until the repeat delay was expired. Is there any way to get
this behaviour in Hobbit 4.2.0, or has anyone already created something
generally useful in e.g. the SMS alert interface script he is using?

If no-one has a solution, I'm going to write my own. Just checking if
I'm about to re-invent the wheel!


Regards,

Eric.