On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 8:23 AM, Mike Burger <mburger at bubbanfriends.org>wrote:
Hi all,
Does anyone have an answer for this?
Is it possible to configure Xymon to send a recovered notification *only* if there was a corresponding notification that was sent for the initial red state?
If it's not possible, can I make a feature request for a future release?
Thanks, Ray
On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 4:55 PM, Raymond Lee <raylee88 at gmail.com> wrote:
I have a question about the RECOVERED flag in alerts.cfg. Here's an example:
PAGE=somepage COLOR=red MAIL somebody at somewhere.com DURATION>7 RECOVERED REPEAT=1h
The behavior I'm seeing is that if a test on PAGE=somepage turns red for less than 7 minutes and then turns green again, we'll get an email for the recovery but not the initial red state. Is this the expected behavior of the RECOVERED flag? Is it possible to configure Xymon to send a recovered notification *only* if there was a corresponding notification that was sent for the initial red state?
That's interesting...I'm not seeing recovered emails for events that occur and then clear within the >X timeframe. However, if I recall what I read, correctly, from the documentation, the polling/reporting time frame is in increments of 5 minutes...what happens if you change <7 to <10?
Hi Mike,
That shouldn't make a difference. Xymon's default polling frequency is 5 minutes, but we just happen to set ours to 7 minutes. At any rate, DURATION is just the length of time that the test was red, so it shouldn't matter what the polling period is. To confirm this, I tried changing it to DURATION>10 and got the same results.
So if the intended behavior of the RECOVERED flag is to send notification whenever a test changes from red/yellow/purple back to green, regardless of how long the test was in the red/yellow/purple state, then it's working as designed. But if there's a way to make it notify only if the DURATION criterion is satisfied, then I'd be interested in hearing about it.
Thanks, Ray
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