[Xymon] network hiccups causing false positives to be sent

[Josh Luthman]

It was when I started using ROUTE years ago.

Josh Luthman
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On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 4:03 PM, Michael Baydoun <indymichaelb at gmail.com> wrote:
> DEPENDS is broken?  No wonder I can't get it to work.
>
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> 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
>>
>> Josh Luthman
>> Office: 937-552-2340
>> Direct: 937-552-2343
>> 1100 Wayne St
>> Suite 1337
>> Troy, OH 45373
>>
>>
>>
>> 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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