[Xymon] Sanity checking my alert config

[Jeremy Laidman]

Shawn

I can't comment on your alerts config, as I rarely use them, so I'm not
familiar with the syntax.

The (R) and (S) are alert codes. R means "recovered" and S means "stopped"
(matched a STOP rule).

I couldn't find the details in any documentation, but the source code
reveals all! There are other codes, and they would be listed in a code
string (not necessarily just a single character) separated by commas,
within the parentheses. Here's what the code says:

A = no alerts
R = recovered (alert has recovered from an alert state)
N = notice (matches NOTICE rule because message is a "notify" message)
S = stoprule (matches a rule with a STOP recipient)
U = unmatched

Hope that helps

On Thu, 29 Jul 2021 at 10:21, Shawn Heisey <hobbit at elyograg.org> wrote:

> In alerts.cfg, I have this:
>
> HOST=* COLOR=red,purple SERVICE=msgs
>          MAIL $ADMINMAIL
> HOST=* COLOR=red,purple
>          IGNORE SERVICE=msgs
>          MAIL $ADMINMAIL RECOVERED
>
> My goal with this is to see alerts for purple and red statuses for all
> tests, and then get recovery alerts for all tests except msgs.  Did I do
> the config right for that?
>
> I would also like to see if I can get a legend for the alerting grid in
> the "info" page.  Here's a screenshot showing what the above config
> produces:
>
> https://www.dropbox.com/s/6wvutxctcn4uztf/xymon-alerts-elyograg.png?dl=0
>
> I'd like to know what "(R)" and "(S)" mean, and what the line where the
> email address is blue means.
>
> Thanks,
> Shawn
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