[hobbit] Duration reset on status change

[Pat Vaughan]

Just my $.02, but I would make a second DURATION type counter that gets
reset on every state change and add a keyword called something like
LASTCHANGE.  That way the user can decide how he wants to handle
duration type rules.  Some users may want rules based on the last time a
test was "green" and other rules based on the last time the state changed.



Henrik Stoerner wrote:
> In <BAY130-F27256BE7B86074DCCF21E3BADC0 at phx.gbl> "Patrick Vaughan" <patrick_a_vaughan at hotmail.com> writes:
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>> I need to send an Email if a test is yellow, and escalating pages if it
>> is red.  My problem is that a test went yellow over the weekend when
>> nobody was checking Email, then in the middle of the night went to red.
>> Which caused techs, backup techs, managers, and the CEO to be paged
>> because the duration was over 24 hours.
>>     
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>> Is there any way to reset the duration counter when the state changes.
>> Instead of just when the state changes from green?
>>     
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> No.
>
> The problem with this is that you'll get tons of alerts if a status
> is wobbling just around the red threshold.
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> I do understand your predicament with the current way alerting works,
> but right now I haven't found the optimum way of doing it.
>
>
> Regards,
> Henrik
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