[Xymon] alerts.cfg "TIME=" broken in v4.3.19?

J.C. Cleaver cleaver at terabithia.org
Mon Apr 13 20:15:19 CEST 2015


On Mon, April 13, 2015 11:13 am, Andy Smith wrote:
> J.C. Cleaver wrote:
>> When you do a "xymoncmd xymond_alert --dump-config" do the 'TIME' lines
>> show up properly? And, generally speaking... is the interval selection
>> working?
>>
>> I just want to try to narrow down if this is a display issue in the CGI
>> or
>> something going wrong with the parsing generally.
>>
>> -jc
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, April 13, 2015 5:55 am, Scot Kreienkamp wrote:
>>> Confirmed here as well.
>>>
>>> Scot Kreienkamp
>>>
>>> From: Xymon [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Brandon Dale
>>> Sent: Monday, April 13, 2015 1:01 AM
>>> To: Gavin Stone-Tolcher; xymon at xymon.com
>>> Subject: Re: [Xymon] alerts.cfg “TIME=” broken in v4.3.19?
>>>
>>> The same thing is happening for me in 4.3.19
>>>
>>> I have TIME=*:0800:2200 in alerts.cfg and it now shows as “-“ in info
>>> column and the config report
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>>
>>> Brandon
>>>
>>> From: Xymon [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Gavin
>>> Stone-Tolcher
>>> Sent: Monday, 13 April 2015 10:09 AM
>>> To: xymon at xymon.com<mailto:xymon at xymon.com>
>>> Subject: [Xymon] alerts.cfg “TIME=” broken in v4.3.19?
>>>
>>> Hi, I am seeing something unusual in the “info” display for alerting
>>> on
>>> v4.3.19:
>>>
>>> alerts.cfg entry:
>>>
>>> HOST=mixtec.cc.uq.edu.au SERVICE=fping,bbd
>>>         MAIL
>>> irt-work-sms at xyz.cc.uq.edu.au<mailto:irt-work-sms at xyz.cc.uq.edu.au>
>>> DURATION>3m TIME=W:0945:1800 COLOR=red REPEAT=1w FORMAT=SMS
>>> RECOVERED
>>>
>>> “info” for mixtec.cc.uq.edu.au (v4.3.19)
>>>
>>> Alerting:
>>> Service Recipient             1st Delay              Stop after
>>> Repeat Time of Day        Colors
>>> bbd
>>> irt-work-sms at xyz.cc.uq.edu.au<mailto:irt-work-sms at xyz.cc.uq.edu.au> (R)
>>>     3m 1s    -              1w          -              red
>>> fping
>>> irt-work-sms at xyz.cc.uq.edu.au<mailto:irt-work-sms at xyz.cc.uq.edu.au> (R)
>>>     3m 1s    -              1w          -              red
>>>
>>> Notice “-“ for “Time of Day”!
>>>
>>>
>>> “info” for mixtec.cc.uq.edu.au (reverted to v4.3.18)
>>>
>>> Alerting:
>>> Service Recipient             1st Delay              Stop after
>>> Repeat Time of Day        Colors
>>> bbd
>>> irt-work-sms at xyz.cc.uq.edu.au<mailto:irt-work-sms at xyz.cc.uq.edu.au> (R)
>>>     3m 1s    -              1w          W:0945:1800      red
>>> fping
>>> irt-work-sms at xyz.cc.uq.edu.au<mailto:irt-work-sms at xyz.cc.uq.edu.au> (R)
>>>     3m 1s    -              1w          W:0945:1800      red
>>>
>>> “Time of Day” seems correct.
>>>
>>> Is anyone else seeing similar?
>>>
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Gavin Stone-Tolcher, IT Support Officer, Network Operations and
>>> Incident
>
> Display issue.  Tested today, the alerts worked for me as expected.
> --
> Andy
>


Thanks...

Yeah, looks like this was caused by a bug when EXTIME support was added.
This should be fixed in 4.3.20.


Regards,
-jc











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