Okay, let me run a scenario...

7:00 HostA generates an alert which gets sent to pageme at here.com 7:05 HostB generates an alert which does not get sent to pageme at here.com because they got paged in the 15 minutes 7:18 HostA is fixed now, but HostB is still broken and generating an alert, which gets sent to pageme at here.com 7:22 HostC breaks now, no Alert to pageme at here.com 7:33 HostB is still Broken, sends an alert to pageme at here.com

Duration is for how old the alert is Delay - I haven't seen any documentation on this.

In BigBrother it's called pagedelay and was configured in bbwarnsetup.cfg, in my case, for 15 minutes.

Does that help?

-----Original Message----- From: Jason Chambers [mailto:Jason.Chambers at geosoft.com] Sent: Friday, November 18, 2005 2:05 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: RE: [hobbit] Alert Setup Question

I don't understand what you mean

DURATION<5 means that it wont page you if the alert has gone longer that 5 minutes. DUATION>15 means that it wont page you for the alert until the alert has gone up for more than 15 minutes.

There is DELAY which wont page you for certain intervals. But I don't understand what you want to do.

Jason Chambers IT Helpdesk Support Geosoft Inc. 85 Richmond St. West - 8th Floor Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5H 2C9 Tel: 416-369-0111 x344 Fax: 416-369-9599 www.geosoft.com

-----Original Message----- From: PNIXON at ci.somerville.ma.us [mailto:PNIXON at ci.somerville.ma.us] Sent: Friday, November 18, 2005 1:35 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: RE: [hobbit] Alert Setup Question

Thanks for the reply.

If I understand DURATION ( DURATION<5m) correctly that says if HostA is down for more than five minutes alert, if not do nothing.

I basically want to put a hold on the Alert for that rule for 15minutes after it's triggered.

In BB they write an entry in /bbvar/notifications with the mail address with a timestamp of +15m. As long as that entry is in there, you won't get double paged.

--Pat

-----Original Message----- From: Jason Chambers [mailto:Jason.Chambers at geosoft.com] Sent: Friday, November 18, 2005 1:22 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: RE: [hobbit] Alert Setup Question

I think you want the DURATION tag!

http://hobbitmon.sourceforge.net/docs/manpages/man5/hobbit-alerts.cfg.5. html this site should help you.

Jason Chambers IT Helpdesk Support Geosoft Inc. 85 Richmond St. West - 8th Floor Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5H 2C9 Tel: 416-369-0111 x344 Fax: 416-369-9599 www.geosoft.com

-----Original Message----- From: PNIXON at ci.somerville.ma.us [mailto:PNIXON at ci.somerville.ma.us] Sent: Friday, November 18, 2005 12:35 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: RE: [hobbit] Alert Setup Question

Now for the rest of my email....

Okay, I'm working on getting my alerts setup.

My current hobbit-alert.cfg is: $IGNPAT=%(annex-nw|gozo|mis-server)

EXHOST=$IGNPAT MAIL pnixon at ci.somerville.ma.us REPEAT=5m

EXHOST=$IGNPAT,%sps* TIME=*:0800:1700 MAIL 6175559689 at myairmail.com REPEAT=15m FORMAT=SMS MAIL 6175559776 at myairmail.com REPEAT=15m FORMAT=SMS

I need to have it email the pager group for the first alert in a 15minute window, and then for 15minute intervals.

Suggestions?

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