[Xymon] Acknowledge problem

[Claessens Jurgen]

Hi Henrik,

Thank you for the swift response.
You are right, when flipping between yellow-red this would be very annoying.

Thanks

From: Xymon [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of henrik at hswn.dk
Sent: donderdag 23 januari 2014 12:46
To: xymon at xymon.com
Subject: Re: [Xymon] Acknowledge problem


Den 2014-01-23 11:36, Claessens Jurgen skrev:
Currently I’m running xymon 4.3.12 on opensuse 12.3 and I’ve run into a snag.
I have had a yellow disk warning, but as most know, time enough to clear out disk space. However meanwhile the disk space had increased at such a rate, that it was completely full.
What’s the problem? Well, it never came out of acknowledgment. If it turns from yellow to red, I would expect the ack to be removed.
Did anybody encounter this issue before? Is what I expect not possible?

This is "works as designed".
As far as Xymon is concerned, once an event has been ack'ed, then it won't care about it until it has returned to green or the ack expires. Ack'ing an event means "I know about it, and I'll fix it" - then it is the admin's responsibility to handle it. If it goes from yellow to red while he is doing that, is not something Xymon worries about.
This is because the primary purpose of an ack is to stop alerts from being triggered - you dont want to be pestered with alerts while you are working on an issue. Also, if you have e.g. a disk that is flipping between yellow and red, then you don't want to constantly re-ack the event just because the color changed.
You could argue that an ack should be associated with a severity - so an ack-on-yellow would not have effect when the status went red; then you would have to re-ack it. But both acks should remain in effect until the status goes green. But that is not how the system works right now.

Regards,
Henrik



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