[Xymon] alerts

[Jeremy Laidman]

Hi Jean

Alerts are sent by the xymond_alert module. You can find more information
about debugging (eg the "--test") in the man page for this tool.

The xymond_alert binary sends logs into a logfile, usually called
alerts.log. On my system, this is /var/log/xymon/alerts.log.

The alerts.cfg file has a "RECOVERED" keyword, which you might want to use.

I would have thought that a flapping condition would be just as important
to alert on as the underlying condition. I'd be interested to know your
circumstances relating to this.

You can also specify DURATION>30 to not send alerts until a fault condition
is persistent for more than 30 minutes. This may prevent alerts for
flapping conditions, in some cases. You can also adjust the global
flap-detection parameters - see the man page for xymond.

If you want more control over what alerts are sent out, you could implement
your own alerting script that filters some alerts out (such as any for a
flapping status). You would specify a "SCRIPT" recipient in alerts.cfg, and
your script could ascertain whether flapping was present, either from the
BBALPHAMSG environment variable, or by querying xymond using 'xymon
xymondboard' or something similar.

Cheers
Jeremy

On Tue, 19 May 2020 at 00:10, Hyppolite, Jean via Xymon <xymon at xymon.com>
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> Our Xymon server is sending out a lot of excess and some false alerts. It
> seems that when a server is not reachable it sends the alerts out, but when
> the server recovers it never sends the recovery message, but keeps sending
> the down critical messages. And idea what may be causing this? Is there  a
> way to look at exactly what alerts are being sent out from the xymon server
> from xymon? Also is there a way to configure xymon not to send out email
> alerts on flapping statuses?
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> Our Xymon server version is:  Xymon 4.3.30-1.el7.terabithia
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