[Xymon] Red alert delay.

[Phil Crooker]

>Hi all,
>I do want to delay CPU load red alert. As you know the default yellow or red based on the >threshold number but I want that include time delay. If the CPU load 9 and stay like that for 15 >min the color to change red instead of turn red immidiatly reach 8.
>
>Current setup
>
>Load. 6.0 9.0
>
>For idle
>
>DS CPU vmstat.rrd:CPU_IDL <10 color=red "TEXT=CPU usage critical"
>
>Thanks
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Have a look at the help text in alerts.cfg. You can use the DURATION flag:

# A sample rule:
#
# HOST=www.foo.com SERVICE=http
#      MAIL webadmin at foo.com REPEAT=20 RECOVERED
#      MAIL cio at foo.com DURATION>60 COLOR=red
#      SCRIPT /usr/local/bin/sendsms 1234567890 FORMAT=SMS

cheers.