[Xymon] Newbie: some alerts not firing

Thank you all!!

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HOST=%db* EXHOST=%*db* "any host that begins with db except those that have dl2 anywhere in the name"

That is what I want, alert on this event on all the database hosts except the ones with dl2 anywhere in their names.

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xymond_alert --test <hostname> <test> I generally pipe that to grep -v Failed just to cut down on extraneous output. There are plenty of parameters for it, so read the man page. --duration is useful, etc.

thanks, that is a HUGE help. I had not been familiar with this. Gave me some other stuff to look at, too

Looks like the redirect page is working now, but will take a real red to feel 100% confident. (although as a sysadmin I hope it stays green...)

thanks again. I am loving this list Betsy