[Xymon] Too many alerts per host

[Galen Johnson]

In theory, I thought you were supposed to be able to set up alerts based on HOST= or CLASS=.  I've had some issues with them, though.  I think for CLASS to work I may have to define the class at the xymon client side as well...not just host.cfg...which would make that more difficult to manage since I can't just use a generic xymon client.

=G=

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From: Xymon <xymon-bounces at xymon.com> on behalf of Stef Coene <stef.coene at docum.org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2014 1:25 PM
To: xymon at xymon.com
Subject: Re: [Xymon] Too many alerts per host

On Tuesday 18 November 2014 10:04:17 David Fogarty wrote:
> Hi,
> Is there a way to receive only one alert when a host goes red/purple,
> rather than a bunch?  It's frustrating to receive 5+ pages when only one
> is needed.  It's especially frustrating when you pull 4 hosts offline and
> accidentally send 20+ pages to your team.
>
> BigBrother did this with "pagetype: HOST".
>
> The only options I see in Xymon are adding an elaborate set of
> dependencies that will be cumbersome to maintain, or alerting through
> SCRIPT with some form of smart locking in that script.
We use an external scripts for alerting.  The script uses a lock file and only
if the lock file is older then 5 minutes, the alert is processed.


Stef
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