On Fri, Nov 18, 2005, PNIXON at ci.somerville.ma.us wrote:
7:00 HostA generates an alert which gets sent to pageme at here.com 7:05 HostB generates an alert which does not get sent to pageme at here.com because they got paged in the 15 minutes 7:18 HostA is fixed now, but HostB is still broken and generating an alert, which gets sent to pageme at here.com 7:22 HostC breaks now, no Alert to pageme at here.com 7:33 HostB is still Broken, sends an alert to pageme at here.com
Not possible.
The Hobbit alert module doesn't really have the concept of "page groups"; if you want to compare with BB, it behaves like the BB pager with "pagetype" set to "EVENT". Each recipient configured to receive an alert for a specific HOST.TEST combination gets all alerts; there is no way of configuring Hobbit to send max. N alerts to a given recipient in a 15-minute period.
I'm not saying that is the optimum solution for everyone, and it might be changed if you can convince me there is enough people who need it - but so far, you're the first one to ask for such a feature.
Henrik