I knew someone would get it eventually!

I'll see if I can use it as is for now and get back to you if it becomes a big inconvience or issue. It's just kind of counter-productive to be working on something and getting 10 pages in a row.

I suppose I can also build out the DEPENDS stuff to limit the backscatter from a downed item.

Thanks for the response Henrik.

--Pat

-----Original Message----- From: henrik at hswn.dk [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] Sent: Friday, November 18, 2005 6:00 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] Alert Setup Question

On Fri, Nov 18, 2005, PNIXON at ci.somerville.ma.us wrote:

7:00 HostA generates an alert which gets sent to pageme at here.com 7:05 HostB generates an alert which does not get sent to pageme at here.com because they got paged in the 15 minutes 7:18 HostA is fixed now, but HostB is still broken and generating an alert, which gets sent to pageme at here.com 7:22 HostC breaks now, no Alert to pageme at here.com 7:33 HostB is still Broken, sends an alert to pageme at here.com

Not possible.

The Hobbit alert module doesn't really have the concept of "page groups"; if you want to compare with BB, it behaves like the BB pager with "pagetype" set to "EVENT". Each recipient configured to receive an alert for a specific HOST.TEST combination gets all alerts; there is no way of configuring Hobbit to send max. N alerts to a given recipient in a 15-minute period.

I'm not saying that is the optimum solution for everyone, and it might be changed if you can convince me there is enough people who need it - but so far, you're the first one to ask for such a feature.

Henrik

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