You're saying yellow for an hour and red for a few seconds triggers like it was red for an hour?
I note that the previous example was for a custom test but I also have seen this for the disk test: (set to email every 8 hours when yellow)
Sat Dec 24 10:53:27 2011 red 0:49:09 Sun Dec 18 03:01:51 2011 yellow 6 days 7:51:36
Thu Dec 22 17:54:39 2011 jumpstart.example.com.disk (10.100.4.33) xymon at example.com[139] 1324594479 100 Fri Dec 23 01:54:40 2011 jumpstart.example.com.disk (10.100.4.33) xymon at example.com[139] 1324623280 100 Fri Dec 23 09:54:47 2011 jumpstart.example.com.disk (10.100.4.33) xymon at example.com[139] 1324652087 100 Sat Dec 24 10:54:27 2011 jumpstart.example.com.disk (10.100.4.33) xymon at example.com[139] 1324742067 100 Sat Dec 24 10:54:27 2011 jumpstart.example.com.disk (10.100.4.33) alert1[149] 1324742067 100 Sat Dec 24 10:54:27 2011 jumpstart.example.com.disk (10.100.4.33) alert2[152] 1324742067 100 Sat Dec 24 10:54:27 2011 jumpstart.example.com.disk (10.100.4.33) alert3[153] 1324742067 100 Sat Dec 24 10:54:27 2011 jumpstart.example.com.disk (10.100.4.33) alert4[154] 1324742067 100