It sure seems like it would be easier to change the website to query for red and purple, wouldn't it?
From: Betsy Schwartz [mailto:user-c61747246f66@xymon.invalid]
Sent: Monday, January 27, 2014 08:42 AM
To: Novosielski, Ryan
Cc: user-ce4d79d99bab@xymon.invalid <user-ce4d79d99bab@xymon.invalid>; xymon at xymon.com <xymon at xymon.com>
Subject: Re: [Xymon] Acknowledge purple?
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<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v1/url?u=http://mailto:user-6e4f7a3bb37f@xymon.invalid&k=LEcyRXIAlDBr1gNDokv57g%3D%3D%0A&r=goqVjEbjBQIAv0%2BJe9F%2B4rALGXrt0QPuXIcMfFKUeRg%3D%0A&m=aoh%2BANL8OcuLkO53OATDBKTkwcL0QoRl73fXGyQZePo%3D%0A&s=479eec9dfb8ed68f4e7b916c7fc73ebf12189ad2104e67a3f8982e1bf23168f1>>; wrote:
You can ack them through e-mail if that is configured, by default. The web interface just doesn't query for them.
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From: John Thurston [mailto:user-ce4d79d99bab@xymon.invalid<mailto:user-ce4d79d99bab@xymon.invalid>]
Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2014 04:49 PM
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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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