[hobbit] throttling alerts

[Larry Barber]

Look at the "depends" tag on the bb-hosts man page.

Thanks,
Larry Barber

On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 8:35 AM, Rob McBroom <mailinglist0 at skurfer.com>wrote:

> From time to time, something will happen that causes Xymon to lose its
> mind. (For instance, if the LDAP server can’t be reached and the Xymon
> server is unable to lookup the username/UID of the “xymon” user.) I
> understand why it’s happening and I don’t think Xymon is doing anything
> wrong here, but these events generate hundreds of e-mails and dozens of SMS
> messages, so I’m looking for ways to control it.
>
> Is there a way to configure alerting with a rule like this: If you see 5
> systems lose connection in a 10 second period, it’s obviously not true so
> shut up about it already.
>
> Maybe I should be addressing this at the MTA level. If so, any tips there?
> (I’m using Postfix.)
>
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