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And here's the alert I just received:

im68:cpu yellow [-1] yellow Mon Feb 14 13:13:56 PST 2005 up: 208 day(s), 1 users, 115 procs, load=529

The alert you show here looks like a recovery-notice (the "-1" I assume is the acknowledgment cookie, and this value indicates that there is no active alert).

Argh. That's bitten me before. I have to figure out how to get the actual word 'recovered' in there to make it easier to understand at 4am.

Could you check the following in hobbitlaunch.cfg:

• The "hobbitd" command has "--alertcolors=red,purple --okcolors=green"
• The "hobbitd_alert" command has "--alertcolors=red,purple"

This setup should give you alerts when a status is red (or purple), and recovery notices only when they go green (after being red or purple).

Hmm. I didn't have --okcolors=green, so I added that to the hobbitd command.

Just to clarify about the hobbitd_alert command, that's in the bbpage module, correct? I didn't have --alertcolors there, but I've just added it:

[bbpage] ENVFILE /opt/bb/server/etc/hobbitserver.cfg NEEDS hobbitd CMD hobbitd_channel --channel=page --log=$BBSERVERLOGS/page.log hobbitd_alert --alertcolors=red,purple

Thanks for your assistance.

-- Bruce Z. Lysik <blysik at shutterfly.com> Operations Engineer