[Xymon] Alarms.cfg REPEAT=Minutes not working?

[Josh Luthman]

Still on Hobbitmon 4.2.3 (not even called Xymon) and this definitely works.
 Started emailing (texting) me at 1:04 and every hour until 6:04 with a
recovery message at 6:05 (when I fixed it).

HOST=%.*\.imaginenetworksllc\.com
  MAIL 9371231234 at vtext.com COLOR=RED DURATION>2m REPEAT=60 RECOVERED
FORMAT=SMS

Josh Luthman
Office: 937-552-2340
Direct: 937-552-2343
1100 Wayne St
Suite 1337
Troy, OH 45373


On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 3:34 PM, Shannon Anderson
<sanderson at cornetser.com>wrote:

>  I am seeing in the Alarm.log file that my REPEAT value in alarms.cfg is
> not being picked up.****
>
> ** **
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> :::Log:::****
>
> 2012-09-24 18:52:16 Ignored unknown/unexpected token 'REPEAT=720' at line
> 122****
>
> ** **
>
> Man pages says****
>
> *REPEAT*
>
> How often an alert gets repeated. As with the DURATION setting, this is in
> minutes****
>
> ** **
>
> So I was expecting 1 alarm and then it holds for 12 hours until alarms
> again for the same failure.****
>
> ** **
>
> Has anyone had issues with this working as it should or may I have the
> syntax wrong?****
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