[Xymon] Too many alerts per host

David Fogarty dave at collegenet.com
Tue Nov 18 20:16:51 CET 2014


That only defines which host or class of host gets any pages at all.  It 
does nothing to reduce the amount of paging for any given event.

Dave Fogarty

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Senior System Administrator
CollegeNET.com

On Tue, 18 Nov 2014, Galen Johnson wrote:

> In theory, I thought you were supposed to be able to set up alerts based 
> on HOST= or CLASS=.  I've had some issues with them, though.  I think 
> for CLASS to work I may have to define the class at the xymon client 
> side as well...not just host.cfg...which would make that more difficult 
> to manage since I can't just use a generic xymon client.
>
> =G=
>
> ________________________________________
> From: Xymon <xymon-bounces at xymon.com> on behalf of Stef Coene <stef.coene at docum.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2014 1:25 PM
> To: xymon at xymon.com
> Subject: Re: [Xymon] Too many alerts per host
>
> On Tuesday 18 November 2014 10:04:17 David Fogarty wrote:
>> Hi,
>> Is there a way to receive only one alert when a host goes red/purple,
>> rather than a bunch?  It's frustrating to receive 5+ pages when only one
>> is needed.  It's especially frustrating when you pull 4 hosts offline and
>> accidentally send 20+ pages to your team.
>>
>> BigBrother did this with "pagetype: HOST".
>>
>> The only options I see in Xymon are adding an elaborate set of
>> dependencies that will be cumbersome to maintain, or alerting through
>> SCRIPT with some form of smart locking in that script.
> We use an external scripts for alerting.  The script uses a lock file and only
> if the lock file is older then 5 minutes, the alert is processed.
>
>
> Stef
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