The other things that seems to be happening is that all alerts are going to all possible recipients. The info panel for most all of the systems I checked look like this:

conn wes.neal at one.verizon.com (R) - - 1h - purple,red page-ems-team1 at one.verizon.com 10m 1s - 2d - purple,red wes.neal at one.verizon.com(R) - - 1h - purple,red page-ems-team1 at one.verizon.com 10m 1s - 2d - purple,red page_ems_team3 at lists.verizonbusiness.com 10m 1s - 2d - purple,red page_ems_team3 at lists.verizonbusiness.com 10m 1s - 2d - purple,red page_ems_team3 at lists.verizonbusiness.com 10m 1s - 2d - purple,red page_ems_team3 at lists.verizonbusiness.com

The rules which I copied over from my old system look like this though for this system in particular.

HOST=$aspmdpbulk MAIL $ems1 REPEAT=60m RECOVERED MAIL page-ems-team1 at one.verizon.com SERVICE=conn DURATION>10 REPEAT=2d

All of my rules in alerts.cfg pretty much look like the above. An email for everything and a page for connectivity. I have checked the file for white space, typos etc. I do not see any. Is there script or something out there that will parse the *.cfg files for errors?