[Xymon] Strange Alerts

[Patrick Nixon]

I've found that adding STOP commands at the end of each match section help
as well to eliminate stray/unintended alerts going out.

On Mon, Jul 24, 2017 at 6:28 PM, Japheth Cleaver <cleaver at terabithia.org>
wrote:

> On 7/24/2017 10:19 AM, John Tullis wrote:
>
>> I'm getting an extremely strange behavior with alerts.
>>
>> Several recipients are complaining that they are getting alerts for
>> servers that they don't manage and aren't assigned. There are about 200
>> lines in my alerts.cfg file.
>>
>> I've verified that the alert rules are accurate and running the test
>> alert script (./bin/xymoncmd xymond_alert --test sever.name cpu) shows
>> the correct, assigned user and the info page for the servers show the right
>> user's email.
>>
>> Anyone know what I'm missing? The same problems happened with my old
>> Hobbit server as well so it could be a config file issue but I've looked
>> thoroughly and haven't been able to track it down yet.
>>
>
> Hi,
>
> I'd start by adding the --cfid option to xymond_alert in tasks.cfg. This
> will cause the alert rule in question to be printed along with each alert
> that goes out, which usually helps narrow down what's going on. If you have
> a alerts.cfg file that spans multiple actual files (via include
> statements), you can run xymoncmd xymond_alert --dump-config to see what
> config lines line up with what rules. (Keep in mind that config line #'s
> will change once you do start making changes to things.)
>
> If that doesn't help, or just points you to catch-all rules, you can run
> xymoncmd xymond_alert --test <host> <test> [other options] to trace down
> exactly what evaluations are occurring, although with a large alert config
> file you'll get a correspondingly large amount of output.
>
> You'll also want to make sure you're running  4.3.25 or higher, as that
> fixed a few bugs involving host records in xymond_alert.
>
> HTH,
> -jc
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