[Xymon] Acknowledge purple?

[Betsy Schwartz]

Wonderful, wonderful, thank you!
Will this be in 4.15?



On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 10:13 AM, Henrik Størner <henrik at hswn.dk> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Den 27-01-2014 14:42, Betsy Schwartz skrev:
>
>> I'm in the process of writing a script to turn all the purplese red
>> because my boss is insisting that either we need to do that, or to be
>> able to ack them.
>>
>>     ----- Original Message -----
>>     From: John Thurston [mailto:john.thurston at alaska.gov
>>     <mailto:john.thurston at alaska.gov>]
>>     Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2014 04:49 PM
>>
>>     Having recently moved from Big Brother to Xymon, one of the features I
>>     find most valuable is 'acknowledge'. It lets someone say 'yeah, I know
>>     the host has a problem' while leaving an indication of the condition
>> on
>>     the web interface.
>>
>>     What I don't understand, though, is why we are not able to
>> 'acknowledge'
>>     purple events. It seems desirable and I can't see how it would cause
>>     confusion.
>>
>>     I've looked in acknowledge.c, and it appears that is is explicitly
>>     querying for 'color=red,yellow'.
>>
>>     Is there a business case to exclude purple from the option to 'ack'?
>>
>
> It isn't something that has popped up before. I think the current
> behaviour is just how it has always been, without me giving it too much
> thought.
>
> Changing that query to "color=red,yellow,purple" won't cause any problems,
> as far as I can tell.
>
> There is a setting in xymonserver.cfg: "ALERTCOLORS" which by default is
> red, yellow and purple. Those colors may trigger an alert. So I think the
> sensible thing would be to allow ack'ing all colors that are listed in this
> setting.
>
> This patch should do it, at least it works on the xymon.com site.
>
>
> Regards,
> Henrik
>
>
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