[Xymon] Too many alerts per host

On Tuesday 18 November 2014 10:04:17 David Fogarty wrote:

Hi, Is there a way to receive only one alert when a host goes red/purple, rather than a bunch? It's frustrating to receive 5+ pages when only one is needed. It's especially frustrating when you pull 4 hosts offline and accidentally send 20+ pages to your team.

BigBrother did this with "pagetype: HOST".

The only options I see in Xymon are adding an elaborate set of dependencies that will be cumbersome to maintain, or alerting through SCRIPT with some form of smart locking in that script. We use an external scripts for alerting. The script uses a lock file and only if the lock file is older then 5 minutes, the alert is processed.

Stef