[Xymon] network hiccups causing false positives to be sent

[Michael Baydoun]

DEPENDS is broken?  No wonder I can't get it to work.

On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 12:55 PM, Josh Luthman
<josh at imaginenetworksllc.com>wrote:

> Use ROUTE as I think DEPENDS is broken.
>
> 1.1.1.1 gateway.foo.com #
> 0.0.0.0 realserver.com # route:gateway.foo.com
>
> realserver.com will go yellow if gateway.foo.com is red
>
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> On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 12:48 PM, Tom S <tsztur at gmail.com> wrote:
> > So our crappy server host (1and1) seems to be getting random network
> spikes
> > causing false alert emails to be sent out with Critical notifications.
> > I understand I can set alerts.cfg to only alert after a certain duration
> of
> > red but we need notifications to be sent right away in case of production
> > downtime.
> >
> > Is there an option where I can have XYMON ping a certain host, and if
> that
> > host is unreachable to ignore any other alerts?
> > eg.  I can run a ping on yahoo.com and example.com , if either of those
> as
> > any connection issues, to ignore all other alerts for the time being?
> >
> > tia.
> >
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