Alex,

I'm a bit of a Xymon newbie, but haven't seen any info on this...

As you know, when a test goes into not responding status, the description associated with it stays as whatever it was when the test last successfully transmitted data. We have our Xymon set up to send alert emails when a test status is purple (our tests are run by a script that has been known to get stuck once or twice in the past, we want to know when this happens so we can bounce it) and some of the recipients are understandably confused when they get alert emails where the test status is correct in the subject line, but the status as described in the email body shows something like "check succeeded OK" rather than something like "Error: Did not receive any data from this test".

Does anyone know if it's possible to automatically change the description text of a test when the status changes to purple, and if so, how?

This sounds like it would be better done with a custom alert script. You could check whether the colour is purple and add/change the notification message as appropriate.

David.

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