[Xymon] network hiccups causing false positives to be sent

[Josh Luthman]

Go to hosts.cfg (or bb-hosts) and use DEPENDS and watch both alerts happen.

Josh Luthman
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On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 4:06 PM, Ryan Novosielski <novosirj at umdnj.edu> wrote:
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> I'd like a confirmation of this first. Broken how/etc.
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> On 02/08/2012 04:03 PM, Michael Baydoun wrote:
>> DEPENDS is broken?  No wonder I can't get it to work.
>>
>> On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 12:55 PM, Josh Luthman
>> <josh at imaginenetworksllc.com <mailto:josh at imaginenetworksllc.com>> wrote:
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>>     Use ROUTE as I think DEPENDS is broken.
>>
>>     1.1.1.1 gateway.foo.com <http://gateway.foo.com> #
>>     0.0.0.0 realserver.com <http://realserver.com> #
>>     route:gateway.foo.com <http://gateway.foo.com>
>>
>>     realserver.com <http://realserver.com> will go yellow if
>>     gateway.foo.com <http://gateway.foo.com> is red
>>
>>     Josh Luthman
>>     Office: 937-552-2340 <tel:937-552-2340>
>>     Direct: 937-552-2343 <tel:937-552-2343>
>>     1100 Wayne St
>>     Suite 1337
>>     Troy, OH 45373
>>
>>
>>
>>     On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 12:48 PM, Tom S <tsztur at gmail.com
>>     <mailto:tsztur at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>     > So our crappy server host (1and1) seems to be getting random
>>     network spikes
>>     > causing false alert emails to be sent out with Critical notifications.
>>     > I understand I can set alerts.cfg to only alert after a certain
>>     duration of
>>     > red but we need notifications to be sent right away in case of
>>     production
>>     > downtime.
>>     >
>>     > Is there an option where I can have XYMON ping a certain host, and
>>     if that
>>     > host is unreachable to ignore any other alerts?
>>     > eg.  I can run a ping on yahoo.com <http://yahoo.com> and
>>     example.com <http://example.com> , if either of those as
>>     > any connection issues, to ignore all other alerts for the time being?
>>     >
>>     > tia.
>>     >
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