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Odd issue with Release Candidate one and alerts

list Sebastian Auriol
Tue, 25 Jan 2011 13:20:41 -0000
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Clark, Sean <mailto:user-2db5fbcae9a7@xymon.invalid> wrote:
I just compiled and installed RC1 on a Red Hat EL5.5 server
this AM, and have come across a strange issue - don't know if
it's my configuration or something with the new version

It seems like it isn't following the DURATION flag for alerts
 
<snip>
here is the alerts.cfg relevent sections:


   128  HOST=% SERVICE=%disk|inode|procs|temperature|bbd|http|conn|ssh
   129   MAIL=user-ac2e53899896@xymon.invalid DURATION>20 REPEAT=60
COLOR=red RECOVERED


   134  HOST=% SERVICE=%disk|inode|procs|temperature
   135   MAIL=user-c96a031d3d93@xymon.invalid TIME=06:0000:2359
DURATION>720 REPEAT=120 COLOR=red RECOVERED
   136   MAIL=user-c96a031d3d93@xymon.invalid TIME=12345:0000:0559
DURATION>720 REPEAT=120 COLOR=red RECOVERED
   137   MAIL=user-c96a031d3d93@xymon.invalid TIME=12345:0600:1759
DURATION>60 REPEAT=120 COLOR=red RECOVERED
   138   MAIL=user-c96a031d3d93@xymon.invalid TIME=12345:1800:2359
DURATION>720 REPEAT=120 COLOR=red RECOVERED


What i am expecting from these rules/matches is

email mailing-list  if it's been red for > 20 minutes, and
email on recovery
<snip> 
What is happening is

When a red even occurs, it immediately sends an email to
user-ac2e53899896@xymon.invalid , and an email to user-c96a031d3d93@xymon.invalid


Does anyone know if this is my configuration that needs
fixing , or something with 4.3.0?


-Sean
I'm going to come at this one from the other direction and ignore the tests
you did which, as Henrik pointed out, are invalid. Instead I'm going to add
you, do these e-mails follow reds, which follow yellows for a period greater
than DURATION? Perhaps, e.g. your disk is permanently yellow, except for
when it goes red, and then the alert triggers straight away?  Do you have
yellow listed as one of your ALERTCOLORS?  If so, then I think this may be
the 'cause', though I have posted before about how I think this should be
made more flexible....

One question I have if Henrik is reading this is, can I use custom colours,
e.g. orange, and put that in ALERTCOLORS instead of yellow?  I suppose I
could just try it and see what happens (since the only yellows that I want
to alert on are custom tests anyway)...

Regards,

SebA
19:34:00