[Xymon] possible xymon 4.3.21 holiday alerting bug?

[J.C. Cleaver]

On Wed, October 7, 2015 11:58 pm, Gavin Stone-Tolcher wrote:
> Hi, We are seeing unusual alerting behaviour with Xymon 4.3.21 server
> using a "holidays.cfg"  with HOLIDAYLIKEWEEKDAY=0.
>
> We have a network operations team (uqnoc-sms) that gets alerts during
> business hours (TIME=W:0800:1700)
> And a data networks team (dn-sms) that get out of business hours alerts in
> certain windows (TIME=W:0600:0759,W:1701:2200,60:0600:2200)
>
> Rules are like:
>
> PAGE=$UNSMSREGEX EXHOST=$UNEXCLUDE
>         MAIL uqnoc-sms at xx.yy.edu.au SERVICE=$UNSMSSVCS DURATION>6m
> TIME=W:0800:1700 COLOR=red REPEAT=1w FORMAT=SMS RECOVERED
>         MAIL dn-sms at xx.yy.edu.au SERVICE=$UNSMSSVCS DURATION>6m
> TIME=W:0600:0759,W:1701:2200,60:0600:2200 COLOR=red REPEAT=1w
> FORMAT=SMS RECOVERED
>
> For a "red" conn test covered by the rule on a weekday public holiday, it
> seems to correctly identify not to send an alert to "uqnoc-sms"
> (TIME=W:0800:1700 ) and instead correctly generates an alert to "dn-sms"
> (TIME=60:0600:2200 component), but then keeps sending the same alert
> approximately every minute (my xymonnet poll cycle). Ignores REPEAT=1w?
>
> Before I try and debug much further, I thought I would ask if anyone else
> has seen similar behaviour?

Hmm. Does the REPEAT value work with a smaller interval (such as 1d or
1h)? And what type of system are you running on?

I'm curious if there's a REPEAT over/underflow going on instead of
something specific to the TIME exclusion back and forth.

Is the test persistently red with no spurious recoveries being generated
during the period in question?


-jc