[Xymon] Too many alerts per host

[David Fogarty]

That only defines which host or class of host gets any pages at all.  It 
does nothing to reduce the amount of paging for any given event.

Dave Fogarty

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Senior System Administrator
CollegeNET.com

On Tue, 18 Nov 2014, Galen Johnson wrote:

> In theory, I thought you were supposed to be able to set up alerts based 
> on HOST= or CLASS=.  I've had some issues with them, though.  I think 
> for CLASS to work I may have to define the class at the xymon client 
> side as well...not just host.cfg...which would make that more difficult 
> to manage since I can't just use a generic xymon client.
>
> =G=
>
> ________________________________________
> From: Xymon <xymon-bounces at xymon.com> on behalf of Stef Coene <stef.coene at docum.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2014 1:25 PM
> To: xymon at xymon.com
> Subject: Re: [Xymon] Too many alerts per host
>
> On Tuesday 18 November 2014 10:04:17 David Fogarty wrote:
>> Hi,
>> Is there a way to receive only one alert when a host goes red/purple,
>> rather than a bunch?  It's frustrating to receive 5+ pages when only one
>> is needed.  It's especially frustrating when you pull 4 hosts offline and
>> accidentally send 20+ pages to your team.
>>
>> BigBrother did this with "pagetype: HOST".
>>
>> The only options I see in Xymon are adding an elaborate set of
>> dependencies that will be cumbersome to maintain, or alerting through
>> SCRIPT with some form of smart locking in that script.
> We use an external scripts for alerting.  The script uses a lock file and only
> if the lock file is older then 5 minutes, the alert is processed.
>
>
> Stef
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