Henrik, Status update: I found out that setting the values the same for sending an email and executing the consigne-script, worked out fine; see alerttrace.txt: 00007902 2005-08-17 11:02:50 *** Match with '$UNIXDAG' *** 00007902 2005-08-17 11:02:50 Mail alert with command 'mail -s "Hobbit [329697] burad12:raid CRITICAL (RED)" someaddress at somedomain.somewhere' 00007902 2005-08-17 11:02:50 Matching host:service:page 'burad12:raid:DNO/SAPEPROC' against rule line 197 00007902 2005-08-17 11:02:50 *** Match with '$UNIXTEST' *** 00007902 2005-08-17 11:02:50 Script alert with command '/usr/local/bb/consigne.ksh' and recipient 00665022245 00007902 2005-08-17 11:03:13 send_alert lucifer:disk state Paging 00007902 2005-08-17 11:03:13 Matching host:service:page 'lucifer:disk:DNO/UB' against rule line 195 00007902 2005-08-17 11:03:13 Failed 'HOST=%(burad12|burad14|burad11|burad15)' (hostname not in include list) 00007597 2005-08-17 11:03:21 @@page igrsxc002:msgs:WINDOWS=red 00007597 2005-08-17 11:03:21 state 1->1 00007597 2005-08-17 11:04:14 @@page igrsdm001:disk:WINDOWS=yellow 00007597 2005-08-17 11:04:14 state 1->1 However, since I bumped up the duration to 30m before the script is executed and (probably) restarted hobbit several times (sooner than the 30 minutes interval), the script seems not to execute yesterday :-( However it worked fine today, twice. For the moment I'll leave the debug-file /tmp/alerttrace.txt in hobbit-alerts.cfg; it sure comes in handy! Regards, Peter