[Xymon] Several yellow alerts on nongreen.html page, acknowledge alerts lists none

[Root, Paul T]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Xymon [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Bill Arlofski
> Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2014 9:46 AM
> To: xymon at xymon.com
> Subject: [Xymon] Several yellow alerts on nongreen.html page, acknowledge alerts lists none

> I have seen a curious behavior that I think might be a bug.

> Currently I have several servers with a yellow status for the cpu test. Each
> of these machines were recently rebooted, so the yellow status is correct, and
> I know that yellow statuses will stay yellow for several more hours.

Hours? I believe the default is 1 hour, and to me that was way too long.

I've set it to 30 minutes, and most of the time still think that's too long. 

You can adjust this in analysis.cfg with the UP option.

> I would like to acknowledge these alerts to stop the distracting blinking
yellow icons and show the static yellow check mark icon instead.

> From the nongreen.html page, choosing Administration --> Acknowledge alert
> brings me to the acknowledge.sh page which says "No active alerts" instead of
> displaying the form with each non-green host/test listed and the ability to
> acknowledge multiple hosts.

I've noticed this, I think sometimes when you enter a new page, you have no context. It maybe a bug, but I just think of it as an annoyance.


> If I click on a yellow cpu icon from the nongreen.html page, and then
> Administration --> Acknowledge alert I have the form to acknowledge the yellow
> cpu alert as expected.

> However, there are two problems with this.

> First, with a large number of non-green hosts/tests, I would have to go back
> and choose each test manually and individually to acknowledge it

On the acknowledge page, you can click the check box next to individual alerts, and then at the bottom put in the global message and time for acknowledgment.


> Second, I have no red alerts in the system, but when I om on the
> acknowledge.sh page, the background is red

I think it's always red. I've never seen it otherwise. 

> Any ideas?  Am I misunderstanding how this works?  Does it only work on red
> statuses?  Why is the background for the acknowledge page red when there are
> no red alerts in the system