[Xymon] Yellow->red escalation, bug or feature?

[Henrik Størner]

On 11-01-2012 21:16, Mark Hinkle wrote:
>> I think there's a counter that isn't reset.
>
> Just guessing, but I would say you are close. Seems more like there is a
> counter missing. As mentioned in the old discussion included in a
> previous email, there is a single alert duration clock when there really
> needs to be both yellow and red clocks. Alert state issue again, maybe?
[snip]
> If the powers-that-be are willing to open the question of "alert state",
> then please, please also look into the long standing recovery message
> issue. Specifically, if you are emailing on yellow and paging on red, a
> test that goes green->yellow->red->yellow->green will result in a red
> page but only an email recovery. See
> http://lists.xymon.com/archive/2008-July/020107.html and
> http://lists.xymon.com/archive/2008-July/020152.html. Apologies if this
> seems like a thread hijack, that is not the intent at all, but rather
> these issues seem very closely related with respect to maintaining alert
> state and to what degree.
>

You're probably quite correct that there is some state information in 
the alert module that does not keep track of "enough" state to handle 
both of these feature requests. So it would make sense to look at them 
at the same time.


Regards,
Henrik