RE: [hobbit] Purple timeout

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

On Tue, 2008-11-25 at 12:50 +0000, Roberts, James wrote:
> I which file do I set this?

Not in a file, in the alert itself.
http://xymon.org/hobbit/help/manpages/man1/bb.1.html

so, if your test currently sends 
"status sam.example.com.eggs red I will not eat them on a boat.  I will
not eat them with a goat."

you would want to change that to:
"status+85 sam.example.com.eggs green I do so like green eggs and ham.
Thank you, thank you, thank you Sam"

If you use +1h, then any delay could show up as transient purples, so
best to give yourself a little cushion.


>  
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Johann Eggers [mailto:Johann.Eggers (at) teleatlas.com] 
> Sent: 25 November 2008 12:14
> To: hobbit (at) hswn.dk
> Subject: RE: [hobbit] Purple timeout
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Roberts, James [mailto:James.Roberts (at) hants.gov.uk]
> > Sent: Dienstag, 25. November 2008 12:49
> > To: hobbit (at) hswn.dk
> > Subject: [hobbit] Purple timeout
> > 
> > Morning.
> > 
> > I want to run a test every hour...how do I stop the alert from going
> purple
> > after 30 mins?
> > 
> > Thanks
> > 
> > James Roberts
> 
> Hi,
> 
> you need to extend the default liftime (30 mins) of yor status message
> by specifiying staus+LIFETIME.
> 
> In your case something like status+1h

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Daniel J McDonald, CCIE #2495, CISSP #78281, CNX
Austin Energy
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