In <48BDBD4F.8020807 at shadowsoft.com> jon at shadowsoft.com (Jon Boede) writes:
I have an alerts file where hobbit sends out an alert to a ever-widening group of people based on DURATION... the longer the un-ack'd duration, the more excited it gets.
The problem comes in when something goes YELLOW for a while and then goes RED. All the time it spent at YELLOW is included in the DURATION even through I have a COLOR=red explicitly given in the config file.
Is there a way to specify the duration as the time something has been RED as opposed to NOT-GREEN?
Unfortunately not.
It's tricky, because a lot of people would also argue that if a status has been red for 10 hours, dips to yellow for 5 minutes and then goes back to red, then those few minutes of yellow should not be enough to reset the duration counter.
Of course, this only applies for a status that can go yellow (e.g. cpu- or disk-utilisation) - network tests usually don't have this issue.
Henrik