[hobbit] Hobbit 4.2.0 not sending recovery messages

Alan Sparks asparks at doublesparks.net
Wed Jan 13 01:10:04 CET 2010


thorsten.erdmann at daimler.com wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> I am using the Hobbit alert service to send alerts via Email if
> something is becoming red. Mostly I also get the recovered message if
> the test becomes green again.
> But if the test becomes first yellow and then green, no recovery
> message is sent. Is that a bug or am I doing something wrong?
>
>
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> you for your cooperation.
>

Ah, this again... :-)

This is a known problem with the alert mechanism.  I posted an analysis
of why (I believe) it happens in this mailing list message:
http://www.hswn.dk/hobbiton/2008/07/msg00132.html

Unfortunately, there appears to be no way in current state to work
around the problem.
-Alan






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