alarms and recoveries

One option would be to modify your send_alarm script
-check the board status of the alert
-if it is yellow, and I am sending a red, send a recovery for the yellow.

checking to see if the test  is yellow is going to be something like (don't
quote me , check the man page for exact syntax):

/usr/local/xymon/server/bin/xymon localhost "xymondboard test=$mytest
host=$myhost fields=color"