[hobbit] [re-post] xymon notifications

Ralph Mitchell wrote:

On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 2:03 PM, J Sloan <joe at tmsusa.com <mailto:joe at tmsusa.com>> wrote:

We've been running big brother for some years, and we monitor several
hundred servers in 2 data centers.

We are currently running a pilot of xymon (4.3.0 svn), and just as
with
big brother, we have redundant monitoring servers. A xymon server in
california monitors hosts in both california and arizona, and a xymon
server in arizona monitors hosts in both data centers as well.

For the most part, xymon is performing well, but it is a bit of an
annoyance with xymon that we get duplicate notifications, as each
xymon
server sends it's own notifications for every event.

Big brother sends a single notification for each event, as
controlled by
the alerting failover.

Is there any way to suppress the duplicate notifications from xymon?

I don't think xymon has failover yet. How are you sending the alerts?? If you're using a script, you could make the script on the backup server run a check against the primary. If it fails, allow the backup to send out the notifications. Not perfect, but it could at least reduce the duplicates.

We're using the mail facility - for instance:

$LXADM=MAIL joe TIME=W:0800:1800 REPEAT=30m

$LXDNS=%(emerald|ebony|mulholland|plifsp01|plifsp10).*

HOST=$LXDNS $LXADM RECOVERED

Joe