Anyone know a way to send a status message which would preempt the duration setting within alerts.cfg?
What I would like to do is send a status message for a hostname.test which would cause an alert to be acted on immediately and skip any settings for duration.
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I would probably not have the duration in the alerts.cfg and instead send the status to a script.
In the script, look for a keyword. If it is there, act immediately. If it isn't then wait for a duration time defined in the script.
Paul.
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Anyone know a way to send a status message which would preempt the duration setting within alerts.cfg?
What I would like to do is send a status message for a hostname.test which would cause an alert to be acted on immediately and skip any settings for duration.
Thanks, John Upcoming PTO: (none)
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On 4/11/2014 7:10 AM, john.r.rothlisberger at accenture.com wrote:
Anyone know a way to send a status message which would preempt the duration setting within alerts.cfg?
What I would like to do is send a status message for a hostname.test which would cause an alert to be acted on immediately and skip any settings for duration.
Maybe the message type 'notify' will do what you need:
notify HOSTNAME.TESTNAME <message text> This triggers an informational message to be sent to those who receive alerts for this HOSTNAME+TESTNAME combination, according to the rules defined in alerts.cfg(5) This is used by the enadis.cgi(1) tool to notify people about hosts being disabled or enabled, but can also serve as a general way of notifying server administrators.
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