Re: [hobbit] Feature Request

[Henrik Stoerner <henrik (at) hswn.dk>]

On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 03:11:49PM -0600, Daniel J McDonald wrote:
> My biggest gripe with BB - pagelevelsrecovered...
> 
> I'd like to be able to page on red and send a recovered notice on green.
> 
> Yellow is no-man's land - it neither causes a page, nor is it sufficient
> to send a "recovered" page.
> 
> That's really important when I'm monitoring temperature.  I use
> bbmrtg.pl to grab the stats.  In one comm room, for example, I have
> yellow as 65:75, and red as 60:80
> With bb, if the temperature starts wavering near 79-80, then I get paged
> repeatedly about it being too hot, no it's OK, no wait it's too
> hot...

I think you've mentioned this before, and now I took a closer look.
It is certainly possible, but I want to hear what you think of this.

Alert- and recovery-notices initially get triggered by a change of
color. So I group the possible colors into three groups: 

1) Those that are critical (red, purple)
2) Those that are OK (green, blue)
3) The others (yellow, clear)

If the color changes from OK -> critical, an alert goes out.
If it changes from critical -> OK, a recovery message is sent.

If it changes from a color in group 3) to a critical color, an alert
is generated, but ONLY if there is no alert active already.  So you'll
get an alert when it goes green->yellow->red, but if it flip-flops
between yellow and red you will NOT get any additional alerts.

Likewise if the change is from a group 3) color to OK. A recovery
message is generated, but ONLY if there was an active alert. So
the recovery message is triggered if it goes red->yellow->green, but
if it just flip-flops between yellow and green, a recovery message
will NOT trigger.

I think that is the optimal solution ?


Henrik