Maybe it is triggering on a different rule? Did you try running 'xymond_alert --test' to see what is actually happening?
From: Xymon <xymon-bounces at xymon.com> on behalf of Eric Wedaa <user-e14588c26c63@xymon.invalid>
Sent: Wednesday, 9 December 2015 6:15 AM
To: Xymon at xymon.com
Subject: [Xymon] Alerts.cfg doesn't wait before sending alert, help?
My Google-fu failed me, maybe somebody can point me in the right direction.
I have an alerts.cfg file with the following contents:
page=webservers2
mail user-e14588c26c63@xymon.invalid COLOR=red duration>5m repeat=4h
mail user-e14588c26c63@xymon.invalid COLOR=!red recovered
What is happening is it sends a yellow alert right away when the webserver goes down, and 15 minutes later sends a red alert.
I THOUGHT that this would not send a yellow alert, and then send a RED alert after 5 minutes.
What am I doing wrong please?
Ericw