[hobbit] Alert Config.

[Henrik Stoerner]

On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 02:46:37PM -0500, James Wade wrote:
> Will this work O.K.?
> 
>  
> 
> HOST=%ep* SERVICE=http

the regex is wrong, you probably want "%ep.*"

> MAIL 555555555 at mycell.com REPEAT=15 COLOR=RED DURATION>5m DURATION<35 RECOVERED
> 
> So, that it will not page the cell unless the outage lasts longer than 5
> minutes,
> 
> and will only page twice. (Assuming after 5 minute outage it pages, then
> pages every fifteen minutes for thirty minutes - twice)

For http, this will work as intended. There is a "gotcha" when this is
used with tests that can go yellow - this is not the case with "http"
tests. But e.g. a disk check that goes yellow for an hour, then red
would NOT trigger an alert in this case, first because you don't alert
on yellow, and second because the duration of the incident exceeds 35
minutes when it does go red (DURATION begins when the status goes
non-green).


Regards,
Henrik