[Xymon] alert collections

[gsimpson at comcast.net]

Hello, 

I have a collection of pages and subpages that compose a system. 
There are several systems in my xymon hosts file. 
Each system looks at a set of machines, VMs and http targets. 
And each system is listed on an 'Environments' page, which only has links (and icons) to the subpages for the systems 
(i.e. no URL or http info is connected to that Environments page) 

Periodically, each system is brought down for maintenance. 
But when that happens, I get swamped with alerts about every component of that system. 

Does anyone know of a way to get one, high-level alert, say from the subpages under my ovmEnvironments page 
instead of 100+ alerts from my monitored elements ? 

I have not seen any discussions like this in the archives, but I could have missed them. 


thanks Greg 



Here is a modified snippet of my hosts.cfg file 
---------------------------------------------------------------- 


page ovmEnvironments OVMEnvironments 
title OVM Environments 


################################################################################################## 
# Env1 starts here 
################################################################################################## 
subpage b16Env1 B16Env1 
title B16 Env1 
subparent b16Env1 b16Env1Hypers Hypervisors 
title B16 Env1 Hypervisors group-compress <font size="+1">Hypervisors</font> 
0.0.0.6 appohs-crm-machine06 
0.0.0.7 authohs-crm-machine07 
... 

subparent b16Env1 b16Env1Hosts Hosts 
title B16 Env1 Hosts group-compress <font size="+1">OVM Hosts</font> 
0.0.0.8 v_resourceWebgate_machine08 
0.0.0.9 v_challengWebgate_machine09 
... 

subparent b16Env1 b16Env1Admin Weblogic Admin/EM Pages 
title B16 Env1 Weblogic Administration group-compress <font size="+1">All Admin Consoles</font> 
0.0.0.91 v_BI_ADMIN # http://user:pswd@machine:port/console 
0.0.0.90 v_CRM_ADMIN # http://user:pswd@machine:port/console 
... 


and here is a snippet from alerts.cfg which DO NOT fire when any of the subpage indicators turn red: 

PAGE=ovmEnvironments COLOR=red RECOVERED 
SCRIPT /home/msmith/xymon/xymonServer/server/ext/smsplus.sh me at company.com REPEAT=24h 

PAGE=ovmEnvironments/b16Env1 COLOR=red RECOVERED 
SCRIPT /home/msmith/xymon/xymonServer/server/ext/smsplus.sh me at company.com REPEAT=24h 


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