[Xymon] Double, triple notifications

[Larry Bonham]

Andrey,

I'm running on RHEL 6.5 xymon version 4.3.17.

I'm having a similar problem but only on recovery notices.  Alert picks up the correct rule and stops.  Recover hits that rule then continues on down the list and will then duplicate on my catch all default rule.  This isn't on all alert recoveries.  Appears to only happen on "server" names that have an underscore or dash in it.  I'm just starting to dig in and experiment with it.

One thing that is really helpful in diagnosing alerts.cfg is adding the --cfid option to tasks.cfg xymond_channel.

[alert]
        ENVFILE /data/xymon/server/etc/xymonserver.cfg
        NEEDS xymond
        CMD xymond_channel      --channel=page  \
                                --log=$XYMONSERVERLOGS/alert.log \
                                xymond_alert \
                                --checkpoint-file=$XYMONTMP/alert.chk \
                                --checkpoint-interval=600 \
                                --debug \
                                --cfid

That will put the alerts.cfg line number at the end of the alert email subject line.  "cat -n alerts.cfg" gives you a nice display of all line numbers.

Single alert notice.

Xymon [6578] PHX_FIKE:trouble CRITICAL (RED) [cfid:243]

Duplicate recovery notices.

Xymon PHX_FIKE:trouble recovered [cfid:243]
Xymon PHX_FIKE:trouble recovered [cfid:432]

From: Xymon [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Andrey Chervonets
Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2014 7:36 AM
To: xymon at xymon.com
Subject: [Xymon] Double, triple notifications

For some tests and hosts I receive several notification copies (identical) - sometimes two, sometimes three.
I had reviewed the configuration, but can not detect where is the problem.

1) How can I debug which rule worked out for each copy?

2) Feature request - I suppose it should be quite easy to avoid redundant notification copies before sending,
for example  using
cat   (rows-list of recepients) | sort | uniq

P.S. XyMon version 4.3.17 on CentOS (64-bit) if this makes sense.

Best regards,

Andrey Chervonets
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