I can think of a couple ways:

1. You could have it monitor several things out on the internet and then combine them to a combo test, and if all of those are down, assume your link is down.

2. I wrote a custom script, that looks at all my machines grouped by location (the first 3 letters of the machine name is location). If the script sees more than x% (don't remember) what that is, down, it assumes it's the network link to the site, and suppresses paging.

Paul.

-----Original Message----- From: Xymon [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Lists Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2014 3:27 PM To: xymon at xymon.com Subject: [Xymon] When Xymon is offline

We have a xymon server hosted on a local (dev office) server so that we can monitor our servers "from outside" - as customers would see things. Generally, it works great. However, the office connection, being a business class cable Internet, does experience some downtime, and when it comes back online, my phone is deluged with messages about the sky falling and all our services being down.

Is there a way for xymon to detect that it's off line and not send hundreds of alerts? Ideal would be to have 3 or more xymon server instances in a distributed wan cluster, and only generate alerts when a quorum of >50% has been achieved. Is this possible?

Thanks,

Ben

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