[Xymon] bypass duration for alert?

[John Thurston]

On 4/11/2014 7:10 AM, john.r.rothlisberger at accenture.com wrote:
> Anyone know a way to send a status message which would preempt the duration setting within alerts.cfg?
>
> What I would like to do is send a status message for a hostname.test which would cause an alert to be acted on immediately and skip any settings for duration.

Maybe the message type 'notify' will do what you need:
> notify HOSTNAME.TESTNAME <message text>
>     This triggers an informational message to be sent to those who receive alerts for this HOSTNAME+TESTNAME combination, according to the rules defined in alerts.cfg(5) This is used by the enadis.cgi(1) tool to notify people about hosts being disabled or enabled, but can also serve as a general way of notifying server administrators.


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