Deepak,
I want to change one of an alert's notification time.
eg. all alerts will have repeat time of 30 mins and disk (or my custom alert) will have repeat time as 4 hours, tried below configuration but not working as expected. What am I doing wrong?
HOST=$HOSTS SERVICE=* IGNORE SERVICE=disk SCRIPT /usr/local/xymon/server/ext/html_mail.pl <http://html_mail.pl> mail_id at gmail.com <mailto:mail_id at gmail.com> FORMAT=PLAIN REPEAT=30 RECOVERED NOTICE SERVICE=disk SCRIPT /usr/local/xymon/server/ext/html_mail.pl <http://html_mail.pl> mail_id at gmail.com <mailto:mail_id at gmail.com> FORMAT=PLAIN REPEAT=240 RECOVERED NOTICE
Suggest you check the doco on this (see Help -> Configuring alerts). You need to understand what IGNORE does vs EXSERVICE. You can also get an idea what alerting is in effect by checking the "info" item for a host.
Keywords in rules and recipientsThese are the keywords for setting up rules:
PAGE rule matching an alert by the name of the page the host is displayed on. This is the name following the "page", "subpage" or "subparent" keyword in the bb-hosts file. EXPAGE rule excluding an alert if the pagename matches. HOST rule matching an alert by the hostname. EXHOST rule excluding an alert by matching the hostname. SERVICE rule matching an alert by the service name. EXSERVICE rule excluding an alert by matching the hostname. COLOR rule matching an alert by color. Can be "red", "yellow", or "purple". TIME rule matching an alert by the time-of-day. This is specified as the DOWNTIME timespecification in the bb-hosts file (see bb-hosts(5)). DURATION Rule matching an alert if the event has lasted longer/shorter than the given duration. E.g. /DURATION>10m/ (lasted longer than 10 minutes) or /DURATION<2h/ (only sends alerts the first 2 hours). Unless explicitly stated, this is in minutes - you can use 'm', 'h', 'd' for 'minutes', 'hours' and 'days' respectively. UNMATCHED This keyword on a recipient means that he will only get an alert, if no other alerts have been sent. So you can use it e.g. when setting up alerts to specific people for some services, then after those you add a recipient with the UNMATCHED keyword who will only get those alerts that were not sent anyone else. You can also use it to setup a "catch-all" alert recipient, use the UNMATHED keyword on a recipient at the end of the hobbit-alerts.cfg file. RECOVERED Rule matches if the alert has recovered from an alert state. NOTICE Rule matches if the message is a "notify" message. This type of message is sent when a host or test is disabled or enabled.
These are the keywords for specifying a recipient:
MAIL Recipient who receives an e-mail alert. This takes one parameter, the e-mail address. SCRIPT Recipient that invokes a script. This takes two parameters: The script filename, and the recipient that gets passed to the script. IGNORE Recipient that does NOT send an alert, and will cause Xymon to stop looking for any more recipients. See the example below. FORMAT format of the text message with the alert. Default is "TEXT" (suitable for e-mail alerts). "PLAIN" is the same as TEXT, except it does not include the URL linking to the status webpage. "SMS" is a short message with no subject for SMS alerts. "SCRIPT" is a brief message template for scripts. REPEAT How often an alert gets repeated. As with the DURATION setting, this is in minutes unless explicitly modified with 'm', 'h', 'd'. STOP By default, hobbitd_alert looks at all the possible recipients in the hobbit-alerts.cfg file when handling an alert. If you would like it stop after a specific recipient gets an alert, add the STOP keyword to this recipient. This terminates the search for more recipients.
David.
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