[Xymon] Alert exclusions and Boolean processing

[Boldt, David]

Scot,

I figured there must be some way of doing this,
thanks for your help, this appears to be doing what I want.


On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 8:41 AM, Scot Kreienkamp <
Scot.Kreienkamp at la-z-boy.com> wrote:

> I think this is what you’re looking for, it’s from the help page on my
> xymon server.  The help pages can be accessed from the menus at the top of
> the xymon web pages on your server as well as xymon.com.
>
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> There are rules ... and exceptions: IGNORE
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> A common scenario is where you handle most of the alerts with a wildcard
> rule, but there is just that one exception where you don't want any cpu
> alerts from the marketing server on Thursday afternoon. Then it is time for
> the IGNORE recipient:
>
>                HOST=* COLOR=red
>
>                               IGNORE HOST=marketing.foo.com SERVICE=cpu
> TIME=4:1500:1800
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>                               MAIL admin at foo.com
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> *From:* Xymon [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] *On Behalf Of *Boldt, David
> *Sent:* Wednesday, September 21, 2016 5:54 PM
> *To:* xymon at xymon.com
> *Subject:* [Xymon] Alert exclusions and Boolean processing
>
>
>
> I have a display group where I would like to ignore alerts for a specific
> test on a specific host.
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> It appears that the following definition
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> DISPLAYGROUP=%My\sGroup EXHOST=myhostname EXSERVICE=mytest COLOR=red
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> excludes all of the tests run on "myhostname" as well as all of the
> "mytest" tests run
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> on the other hosts in that group.
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> How do I arrange for these test exclusions to be logical ANDs?
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> --
>
>                                          -- David Boldt
>                                             <dboldt at usgs.gov>
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>
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                                         -- David Boldt
                                            <dboldt at usgs.gov>


  "It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government
    except all the others that have been tried."
    --Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
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