[xymon] hobbit-alerts.cfg question

[Colin Coe]

Cool.  Thanks Vernon.

On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 11:12 AM, Vernon Everett
<everett.vernon at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Colin
>
> One line per alert, with RECOVERED on the end.
> Change it to something like this.
>    MAIL sms at somecompany.com SERVICE=proliant FORMAT=SMS REPEAT=1440m
> RECOVERED
>
> Cheers
>      Vernon
>
> On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 10:40 AM, Colin Coe <colin.coe at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all
>>
>> The alerting is starting to take shape but I've a question regarding
>> how the alerting works.  If I have a stanza similar to the following,
>> how is it evaluated?  Once for all hosts, or for one host at a time?
>> ---
>> HOST=%.*
>>        # Proliant tests
>>        MAIL sms at somecompany.com SERVICE=proliant FORMAT=SMS REPEAT=1440m
>>        MAIL sms at somecompany.com SERVICE=proliant FORMAT=SMS RECOVERED
>>
>>        # conn where status is RED
>>        MAIL sms at somecompany.com COLOR=red SERVICE=conn EXPAGE=dev
>> REPEAT=1440m
>>        MAIL sms at somecompany.com COLOR=red SERVICE=conn EXPAGE=dev
>> RECOVERED
>>
>>        # conn where status is RED (dev/test)
>>        MAIL email at somecompany.com COLOR=red SERVICE=conn PAGE=dev
>> REPEAT=1440m
>>        MAIL email at somecompany.com COLOR=red SERVICE=conn PAGE=dev
>> RECOVERED
>>
>>        # cpu,disk,memory where status is RED
>>        MAIL sms at somecompany.com COLOR=red SERVICE=cpu,disk,memory
>> EXPAGE=dev REPEAT=1440m
>>        MAIL sms at somecompany.com COLOR=red SERVICE=cpu,disk,memory
>> EXPAGE=dev RECOVERED
>>
>>        # Dev servers
>>        MAIL email at somecompany.com COLOR=red SERVICE=cpu,disk,memory
>> PAGE=dev REPEAT=1440m
>>        MAIL email at somecompany.com COLOR=red SERVICE=cpu,disk,memory
>> PAGE=dev RECOVERED
>>
>>        # Non-dev status YELLOW
>>        MAIL email at somecompany.com COLOR=yellow
>> SERVICE=cpu,disk,memory REPEAT=1440m DURATION>30m
>>        MAIL email at somecompany.com COLOR=yellow
>> SERVICE=cpu,disk,memory RECOVERED
>> ---
>>
>> Also, I've noticed that when a fault occurs I get two emails (or sms')
>> and another when the fault is rectified.  I'm thinking this is because
>> of the 'RECOVERED' line but i thought this would only trigger when the
>> fault goes.  Have I misunderstood?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> CC
>>
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