[hobbit] Alert Config.

[Allan]

Josh Luthman wrote:
> While we're on the subject of alert configuration, could someone 
> confirm mine?
>
> HOST=*
>   MAIL josh at imaginenetworksllc.com 
> <mailto:josh at imaginenetworksllc.com> COLOR=RED DURATION>15m RECOVERED
>
> It will only email once something has been red for 15m and it will 
> email once it has become green again - correct?
>
> On 10/30/07, *Henrik Stoerner* < henrik at hswn.dk 
> <mailto:henrik at hswn.dk>> wrote:
>
>     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 <mailto: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
>
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Correct :)