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Acknowledge purple?

list Betsy Schwartz
Mon, 27 Jan 2014 08:42:10 -0500
Message-Id: <CAAVLHR2CymwjCqj9Rvftg0587U5WQu6vj8vD6=user-e9f488104010@xymon.invalid>

I'm in the process of writing a script to turn all the purplese red
because my boss is insisting that either we need to do that, or to be able
to ack them.

our xymon server does not, can not, and never will be able to receive email

(turning all purples red is easy. turning them red selectively and
intelligently is a bit harder)


On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 4:50 PM, Novosielski, Ryan
<user-6e4f7a3bb37f@xymon.invalid>wrote:
You can ack them through e-mail if that is configured, by default. The web
interface just doesn't query for them.


----- Original Message -----
From: John Thurston [mailto:user-ce4d79d99bab@xymon.invalid]
Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2014 04:49 PM
To: xymon at xymon.com <xymon at xymon.com>
Subject: [Xymon] Acknowledge purple?

Having recently moved from Big Brother to Xymon, one of the features I
find most valuable is 'acknowledge'. It lets someone say 'yeah, I know
the host has a problem' while leaving an indication of the condition on
the web interface.

What I don't understand, though, is why we are not able to 'acknowledge'
purple events. It seems desirable and I can't see how it would cause
confusion.

I've looked in acknowledge.c, and it appears that is is explicitly
querying for 'color=red,yellow'.

Is there a business case to exclude purple from the option to 'ack'?

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