[hobbit] purple page grouping & alert acknowledgment

[Tom Georgoulias]

Henrik Stoerner wrote:

>  >  I've been experiementing with turning off big brother on a client
>  > and causing purple pages, but using the ACK code in the emails does
>  > not prevent purple pages from continuing, nor does my explanation
>  > get recorded into the acklog.  ACK works for red & yellow, though.
> 
> Hmm - odd. I'll try it out later tonight.

A follow up:  I restarted hobbit and repeated the experiement, turning 
off bbc on my client and waiting for 30 mins until it was put into a 
purple status.  Then I took one of the ACK codes from my purple alert 
emails and it work just as expected, disabling paging for the time 
duration I entered and displaying the text message that I entered. 
Tested putting a "-" in front of the ACK code and it acknowledged all 
the purples for the host, so that's a neat little trick.

I cannot explain why this didn't work the first times that I tried it, 
but I swear it didn't.

Tom