RE: [hobbit] Feature Request

["McDonald, Dan" <Dan.McDonald (at) austinenergy.com>]

On 1/11/2005 5:20 PM, Henrik Stoerner wrote:

>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.

>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)

This should probably be configurable.  I'd probably put purple in the other
category unless I can get bbmrtg to work more reliably.  When mrtg goes
belly up, I currently get over 300 purples which can generate upwards of
1700 pages...

>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.

Precisely.

>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.

Again, exactly what I want.

>I think that is the optimal solution ?

Yes.

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Dan McDonald, CCIE #2495
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