[Xymon] network hiccups causing false positives to be sent

[Josh Luthman]

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
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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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