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From: xymon-bounces at xymon.com [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Henrik Størner
Sent: 24 July 2012 17:28
To: xymon at xymon.com
Subject: Re: [Xymon] xymond_alert / alerts.cfg duration bugs or documentation issues
On 28-05-2012 15:28, SebA wrote:
2 possible bugs or documentation errors...
*Summary:*
1. xymond_alert interprets duration as minutes although the
documentation says it is specified as seconds.
Right, I'll correct the documentation so it is clear that the duration values are in minutes (in 4.3.9).
2. > is interpreted as >= (greater than or equal to) instead of >
(greater than) in alerts.cfg.
Fixed in 4.3.9, so you can explicitly use ">=" or "<=" instead of ">" and "<" behaving as such (you cannot actually specify ">=" in 4.3.x versions prior to 4.3.9).
*Other Suggestion:*
alerts.cfg should accept durations specified in seconds (with an s
suffix) so that alert parameters can be more accurately defined as some
tests or status changes may be occurring more often than once a minute.
Not really meaningful, IMHO. Also, the alert handler only polls for new alerts every 30 seconds so it would increase the load significantly if we had to support per-second alerts.
Regards,
Henrik