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Alert transition yellow -> red with repeat problem

list Josh Luthman
Thu, 1 Jun 2017 14:21:29 -0400
Message-Id: <user-45d585cca0af@xymon.invalid>

It's a known issue.  I don't believe I've ever seen any kind of resolution.


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On Thu, Jun 1, 2017 at 2:03 PM, <user-7adce57665bb@xymon.invalid> wrote:
This problem continues and I can’t seem to get anybody’s attention.


Has anyone seen this problem before?????????


Thanks,

John

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John Rothlisberger

IT Strategy, Infrastructure & Security - Technology Growth Platform

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*From:* Rothlisberger, John R.
*Sent:* Friday, April 28, 2017 1:40 PM
*To:* 'xymon >> xymon at xymon.com' <xymon at xymon.com>
*Subject:* RE: Alert transition yellow -> red with repeat problem


This problem contributed to an outage last night – something is wrong.


Last night we had a disk that was in the warning state – warning email
sent.


That disk then went into an alert state and an alert email was triggered
(right away as the DURATION value took into account the time it was yellow)
and then again 15 minutes later as designed.


THEN – another disk on that server went yellow.  It did NOT trigger any
emails (as expected we should continue to focus on the alerts) but it
somehow interfered with the REPEAT time of the alerts and those STOPPED.


There is a bug somewhere.


Thanks,

John

Upcoming PTO:


John Rothlisberger

IT Strategy, Infrastructure & Security - Technology Growth Platform

TGP for Business Process Outsourcing

Accenture

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*From:* Rothlisberger, John R.
*Sent:* Tuesday, April 11, 2017 7:49 AM
*To:* 'xymon >> xymon at xymon.com' <xymon at xymon.com>
*Subject:* Alert transition yellow -> red with repeat problem


This is a problem I have seen for a long long time and have actually
brought it up on the list before.

Xymon 4.3.21

Ubuntu 14.04LTS


The problem I have (in this instance) a warning which is to be repeated
daily suddenly goes red and triggers a single alert but doesn’t repeat
again until the repeat time of the warning has passed.


From the notification.log:

Tue Mar 28 05:31:28 2017 ServerA.disk (IP) disk_warn 1490697082 100 <-
warning sets a repeat time of 1 day

Tue Mar 28 05:53:32 2017 ServerA.disk (IP) disk_alert 1490698405 100 <-
minutes later it goes red (red repeat time is 15 minutes but no further
alerts are generated)

Next alert comes out 1 day after the above warning:

Wed Mar 29 05:31:31 2017 ServerA.disk (IP) disk_alert 1490783486 100 <- 1
day after previous warning.  This should have been repeated every 15
minutes.

Wed Mar 29 05:46:40 2017 ServerA.disk (IP) disk_alert 1490784394 100 <-
now, the repeat time is 15 minutes

… <- and continues every 15 minutes.


This alert went a full 24 hours with only a single notification.  L

I have seen this before (not always) where the repeat time in a warning
overrides a follow up alert until the warning repeat time has expired.


Alert rules:

   SCRIPT /home/xymon/server/ext/pg/exwarn_SCRIPT disk_warn DURATION>30
REPEAT=1d COLOR=yellow SERVICE=disk FORMAT=TEXT UNMATCHED

   SCRIPT /home/xymon/server/ext/pg/exalert_SCRIPT disk_alert DURATION>20
REPEAT=15 COLOR=red SERVICE=disk FORMAT=TEXT UNMATCHED


Ideas/thoughts?


Thanks,

John

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John Rothlisberger

IT Strategy, Infrastructure & Security - Technology Growth Platform

TGP for Business Process Outsourcing

Accenture

XXX.XXX.XXXX <(312)%20693-3136> office


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