TS - Problem with the alert UP messages?

I am running 4.3.0-0.beta2 on CentOS 5.4.

I have been writing a smaller output for UP, DOWN, DISABLED for use by our blackberrys.

Since the blackberry has access to the inside network, it can do an ACK of a device.

I include a link to a page that they can do the ACK from quickly.

I have a device that answers a ping running for this test.

I have a MAIL and a SCRIPT entry in the hobbit-alerts.cfg file for the device.

bb-hosts entry:

            128.170.99.99    Tom-Cisco-7940                  # conn

hobbit-alerts.cfg entries:

            HOST=Tom-Cisco-7940  RECOVERED

                            MAIL D.Tom.Schmitt at l-3com.com

REPEAT=365d

SEQUENCE OF EVENTS:

            Unplug the device - DOWN

            DISABLE the device

            Plug in the device - UP

For the MAIL entry - DOWN: (blank lines removed and the 'See' link line)

  SUBJECT:  Hobbit [885819] Tom-Cisco-7940:conn CRITICAL (RED)

red Wed Jun 30 14:13:32 2010 conn NOT ok

Service conn on Tom-Cisco-7940 is not OK : Host does not respond to ping

System unreachable for 2 poll periods (200 seconds)

&red 128.170.7.47 is unreachable

For the MAIL entry - At time of DISABLE:

SUBJECT: Hobbit Tom-Cisco-7940:conn recovered

red Wed Jun 30 14:15:33 2010 conn NOT ok

Service conn on Tom-Cisco-7940 is not OK : Host does not respond to ping

System unreachable for 3 poll periods (321 seconds)

&red 128.170.7.47 is unreachable

For the MAIL entry - At time of UP/RESTORAL:

Here is the rub:

  There is no RECOVERED message - already sent for the DISABLE event

above.

  The system never calls MAIL or SCRIPT statements again.

If you don't do the DISABLE, then you get DOWN and UP messages as expected.

Is this a BUG or a FEATURE L

Can anyone try this on their system to see if I have the problem?

I don't want to work on the source code.

I could start a background job that will watch for a BLUE to green change and

lookup those to notify in the hobbit-alerts.cfg file and send them a simple notice:

  XXX is back up at date-time

Any thoughts please!

Thanks in Advance,

Tom Schmitt

Senior IT Staff - R&D

L-3 Communication Systems West

640 North 2200 West

P.O. Box 16850

Salt Lake City, UT 84116

Phone (801) 594-3030

Cell (801) 231-7230

eFax (413) 480-6873

D.Tom.Schmitt at L-3Com.com

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