[Xymon] grown tests not alerting every 5 minutes

[Jeremy Laidman]

Rod

It's my experience that the conn test does not repeat every 5 minutes under
normal circumstances. And this is the behaviour I'd prefer to see for all
of my alerts. Once I see the first alert, I know whether I need to take
action, and until the recovery message comes through, there isn't much
benefit in being informed of something I already know.

Unless you specify REPEAT in your alerts.cfg, you should get an email every
30 minutes. This is how alerts for the conn test would behave on a default
installation. But you can specify REPEAT to be whatever you need. For more
on REPEAT keyword, refer to the man page for alerts.cfg
<https://xymon.sourceforge.io/xymon/help/manpages/man5/alerts.cfg.5.html>,
and the help page on Configuring Xymon Alerts
<https://xymon.sourceforge.io/xymon/help/xymon-alerts.html>.

Cheers
Jeremy


On Thu, 20 Aug 2020 at 11:11, Rod <rodbass63 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I wrote a script test and it's not sending the emails every 5 minutes. It
> sends the first email as soon as I initiate the false positive and it will
> send the email when it recovers but nothing in between -- sometimes I leave
> the false positive for 20 minutes. I looked in the mail logs and I see the
> same thing: the email on the first false positive and the email on the
> recovery but nothing in between. The default conn test does send the email
> every 5 minutes as expected but.
>
> Here is what my alerts.cfg looks like for that host:
>
> HOST=New-xxxxx-Patient-Portal
> SERVICE=new-xxxx-patient-portal,http,sslcert,conn
>     MAIL rod.xxxxx at xxxxxx.com COLOR=red RECOVERED
>     MAIL rod.xxxxx at xxxxxxx.com COLOR=yellow RECOVERED
>     MAIL nur.xxxxx at xxxxxxx.com COLOR=red RECOVERED
>     MAIL john.xxxxx at xxxxxxx.com COLOR=red RECOVERED
>     MAIL oleg.xxxxxx at xxxxxxx.com COLOR=red RECOVERED
>     MAIL pm_xxxxx at xxxxxxx.com COLOR=yellow RECOVERED
>
> Here is the tasks.cfg
>
> [new-xxxxxx-patient-portal]
>    ENVFILE /usr/lib/xymon/server/etc/xymonserver.cfg
>    CMD /usr/lib/xymon/server/ext/States/nm/xxxxxx.pl
>    LOGFILE /var/log/xymon/xxxxxxx.log
>    INTERVAL 5m
>
> Here is the hosts.cfg part:
> xx.192.160.xx      <hostname>      # new-xxxxxx-patient-portal sslcert
> https://xxxxxxxx  NOCOLUMNS:info,trends,clientlog,ports,procs,files,inode
>
>
> Any help will be appreciated.
>
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