Okay, I've read the hobbit-alerts man page and docs.
Under Duration the man page says: Rule matching an alert if the event
has lasted longer/shorter than the given duration. And then it goes on
to give examples and those are in minutes.
But for the ping test for a host being down, I only want to send the
alert if a host is unresponsive for at least 1 minute (trying to
eliminate a bunch of false positives) So I set it up for a single host
with the following rule...
HOST=test103
MAIL xyz DURATION>1 REPEAT=10 COLOR=red RECOVERED
So based on the alerts I've received (see below), Duration isn't per
minute. So is there a way to set the alerts so I can specify don't send
an alert unless its 1 minute.
Service conn on test103 is not OK : Host does not respond to ping
System unreachable for 2 poll periods (19 seconds)
&red test103 is unreachable