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alert if up

list John Payne
Wed, 29 Apr 2009 09:11:18 -0400
Message-Id: <user-a8e0fcb742ae@xymon.invalid>

On Apr 29, 2009, at 3:14 AM, Ralph Mitchell wrote:
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 4:14 PM, John Payne <user-ec997c02e3b9@xymon.invalid>  wrote:
I thought there was a way to do this.... but in some cases, i'd  really like an alert to fire if certain IP addresses _become_  pingable.  Is this possible in bb-hosts or only with some alert  scripting?

bb-hosts man page says:

conn
The "conn" test (which does a ping of the host) is enabled for all  hosts by default, and normally you just want to disable it using  "noconn" or "noping". However, on the rare occasion where you may  want to check that a host is NOT up, you can specify it as an  explicit test, and use the normal test modifiers, e.g. "!conn" will  be green when the host is NOT up, and red if it does appear on the  network.
Thanks.... selective blindness on my part I guess :)