Okay, let me run a scenario...
7:00 HostA generates an alert which gets sent to user-31de6375c70f@xymon.invalid
7:05 HostB generates an alert which does not get sent to user-31de6375c70f@xymon.invalid
because they got paged in the 15 minutes
7:18 HostA is fixed now, but HostB is still broken and generating an alert,
which gets sent to user-31de6375c70f@xymon.invalid
7:22 HostC breaks now, no Alert to user-31de6375c70f@xymon.invalid
7:33 HostB is still Broken, sends an alert to user-31de6375c70f@xymon.invalid
Duration is for how old the alert is
Delay - I haven't seen any documentation on this.
In BigBrother it's called pagedelay and was configured in bbwarnsetup.cfg,
in my case, for 15 minutes.
Does that help?
-----Original Message-----
From: Jason Chambers [mailto:user-3fa671c0a30d@xymon.invalid]
Sent: Friday, November 18, 2005 2:05 PM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: RE: [hobbit] Alert Setup Question
I don't understand what you mean
DURATION<5 means that it wont page you if the alert has gone longer that
5 minutes.
DUATION>15 means that it wont page you for the alert until the alert has
gone up for more than 15 minutes.
There is DELAY which wont page you for certain intervals. But I don't
understand what you want to do.
Jason Chambers
IT Helpdesk Support
Geosoft Inc.
XX Richmond St. West - 8th Floor
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
M5H 2C9
Tel: XXX-XXX-XXXX x344
Fax: XXX-XXX-XXXX
www.geosoft.com
-----Original Message-----
From: user-c102b8958c7a@xymon.invalid [mailto:user-c102b8958c7a@xymon.invalid]
Sent: Friday, November 18, 2005 1:35 PM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: RE: [hobbit] Alert Setup Question
Thanks for the reply.
If I understand DURATION ( DURATION<5m) correctly that says if HostA is
down
for more than five minutes alert, if not do nothing.
I basically want to put a hold on the Alert for that rule for 15minutes
after it's triggered.
In BB they write an entry in /bbvar/notifications with the mail address
with
a timestamp of +15m. As long as that entry is in there, you won't get
double paged.
--Pat
-----Original Message-----
From: Jason Chambers [mailto:user-3fa671c0a30d@xymon.invalid]
Sent: Friday, November 18, 2005 1:22 PM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: RE: [hobbit] Alert Setup Question
I think you want the DURATION tag!
http://hobbitmon.sourceforge.net/docs/manpages/man5/hobbit-alerts.cfg.5.
html this site should help you.
Jason Chambers
IT Helpdesk Support
Geosoft Inc.
XX Richmond St. West - 8th Floor
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
M5H 2C9
Tel: XXX-XXX-XXXX x344
Fax: XXX-XXX-XXXX
www.geosoft.com
-----Original Message-----
From: user-c102b8958c7a@xymon.invalid [mailto:user-c102b8958c7a@xymon.invalid]
Sent: Friday, November 18, 2005 12:35 PM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: RE: [hobbit] Alert Setup Question
Now for the rest of my email....
Okay,
I'm working on getting my alerts setup.
My current hobbit-alert.cfg is:
$IGNPAT=%(annex-nw|gozo|mis-server)
EXHOST=$IGNPAT
MAIL user-c102b8958c7a@xymon.invalid REPEAT=5m
EXHOST=$IGNPAT,%sps* TIME=*:0800:1700
MAIL user-99ffe2bb97cc@xymon.invalid REPEAT=15m FORMAT=SMS
MAIL user-24a445068ef7@xymon.invalid REPEAT=15m FORMAT=SMS
I need to have it email the pager group for the first alert in a
15minute
window, and then for 15minute intervals.
Suggestions?