In theory, I thought you were supposed to be able to set up alerts based
on HOST= or CLASS=. I've had some issues with them, though. I think
for CLASS to work I may have to define the class at the xymon client
side as well...not just host.cfg...which would make that more difficult
to manage since I can't just use a generic xymon client.
=G=
From: Xymon <xymon-bounces at xymon.com> on behalf of Stef Coene <user-dbffe946c0f4@xymon.invalid>
Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2014 1:25 PM
To: xymon at xymon.com
Subject: Re: [Xymon] Too many alerts per host
On Tuesday 18 November 2014 10:04:17 David Fogarty wrote:
Hi,
Is there a way to receive only one alert when a host goes red/purple,
rather than a bunch? It's frustrating to receive 5+ pages when only one
is needed. It's especially frustrating when you pull 4 hosts offline and
accidentally send 20+ pages to your team.
BigBrother did this with "pagetype: HOST".
The only options I see in Xymon are adding an elaborate set of
dependencies that will be cumbersome to maintain, or alerting through
SCRIPT with some form of smart locking in that script.
We use an external scripts for alerting. The script uses a lock file and only
if the lock file is older then 5 minutes, the alert is processed.
Stef