[Xymon] Xymon alerting when it's been told not to

[Ward, Martin]

I cannot fathom why it repeats at all so rather that look for something that isn't there I have forced every alert to repeat every seven days to see if that resolves the issue!

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: henrik at hswn.dk [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk]
> Sent: 04 March 2013 11:27
> To: Ward, Martin
> Cc: xymon at xymon.com
> Subject: Re: [Xymon] Xymon alerting when it's been told not to
> 
> On Mon, 4 Mar 2013 09:19:25 +0000, "Ward, Martin"
> <Martin.Ward at colt.net>
> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I have the following in my alerts.cfg:
> [snip]
> > Yet I am still getting CPU alerts from ivma2.lon.osspriv.colt.net
> 
> Try running
>    xymoncmd xymond_alert --test ivma2.lon.osspriv.colt.net cpu and look for
> lines like
> 
> 00004226 2013-03-04 12:24:11 Matching host:service:dgroup:page
> 'cscxymweb3.csc.dk:disk:Xymon
> servers:cscdk/mwsmonitor,cscdk/mwsmonitor'
> against rule line 1260
> 00004226 2013-03-04 12:24:11 *** Match with 'MAIL $XYMONADM
> $XYMONADMREPEAT' ***
> 00004226 2013-03-04 12:24:11 Mail alert with command '/usr/bin/mail -s
> "Xymon [12345] cscxymweb3.csc.dk:disk CRITICAL (RED)"
> 29236260 at sms.csc.dk'
> 00004226 2013-03-04 12:24:11 Matching host:service:dgroup:page
> 'cscxymweb3.csc.dk:disk:Xymon
> servers:cscdk/mwsmonitor,cscdk/mwsmonitor'
> against rule line 126
> 
> to see which rule triggers the alert.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Henrik


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