On Mon, April 7, 2014 5:55 am, Kevin VerMeer wrote:
I have a question on what I am seeing in some of the alerts being
generated.
I have a xymon alert script set up for connection events.
The alert.cfg entry is:
HOST=* SERVICE=conn COLOR=red
SCRIPT /usr/local/xymonutil/alertscripts/noconnectivity.sh
DURATION>15 REPEAT=15 RECOVERED
To me that says the script should only be invoked if connectivity is down
for 15 minutes, repeat every 15 if still down, and one final time when
connectivity is back up.
Within the script that gets invoked, a message gets creates like this:
MSG="Xymon is reporting no connectivty to $STATION.\n Current time:
$DATE.\n Number of seconds down: $DOWNSECS. \n Time down: $TIMEDOWN. \n"
And one MSG that is generated is
Xymon is reporting no connectivty to sta10143.
Current time: 04/06/14 18:00:55.
Number of seconds down: 60.
Time down: 00:01:00.
I would have expected the $DOWNSECS variable to be the total time down,
even including the original 15 minute DURATION.
Is that thinking correct? Or does DOWNSECS only include the time down
after the DURATION kicks in?
Or am I off base on something else?
Kevin,
We're doing something similar and - AFAIK - $DOWNSECS is indeed the total
duration of the incident (although this may be subject to any flap
detection that's enabled).
Q's:
What version are you running?
and Does it actually wait 15m before sending the first message?
Regards,
-jc