[hobbit] A different RECOVERED message problem!

[Alan Sparks]

SebA wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
>  
>
> This seems to be a bug (or at least a flaw) in the alerting system (on
> hobbit trunk from Dec 2008):  a recovery is sent for a MAIL alert that
> never actually sent an alert in the first place.  The last two lines
> in the notifications.log are recoveries that were sent at the exact
> same time.  But only 1 alert (alarm) was actually sent out.
>
>  
>
I have a feeling you're seeing an artifact of some oddities in how the
alerts module matches up events and paging rules.  You can see my
analysis writeup here (however, I never solved the problem):
http://www.hswn.dk/hobbiton/2008/07/msg00132.html
-Alan