Hi,
I wrote a script test and it's not sending the emails every 5 minutes. It sends the first email as soon as I initiate the false positive and it will send the email when it recovers but nothing in between -- sometimes I leave the false positive for 20 minutes. I looked in the mail logs and I see the same thing: the email on the first false positive and the email on the recovery but nothing in between. The default conn test does send the email every 5 minutes as expected but.
Here is what my alerts.cfg looks like for that host:
HOST=New-xxxxx-Patient-Portal SERVICE=new-xxxx-patient-portal,http,sslcert,conn MAIL rod.xxxxx at xxxxxx.com COLOR=red RECOVERED MAIL rod.xxxxx at xxxxxxx.com COLOR=yellow RECOVERED MAIL nur.xxxxx at xxxxxxx.com COLOR=red RECOVERED MAIL john.xxxxx at xxxxxxx.com COLOR=red RECOVERED MAIL oleg.xxxxxx at xxxxxxx.com COLOR=red RECOVERED MAIL pm_xxxxx at xxxxxxx.com COLOR=yellow RECOVERED
Here is the tasks.cfg
[new-xxxxxx-patient-portal] ENVFILE /usr/lib/xymon/server/etc/xymonserver.cfg CMD /usr/lib/xymon/server/ext/States/nm/xxxxxx.pl LOGFILE /var/log/xymon/xxxxxxx.log INTERVAL 5m
Here is the hosts.cfg part: xx.192.160.xx <hostname> # new-xxxxxx-patient-portal sslcert https://xxxxxxxx NOCOLUMNS:info,trends,clientlog,ports,procs,files,inode
Any help will be appreciated.
Rod
It's my experience that the conn test does not repeat every 5 minutes under normal circumstances. And this is the behaviour I'd prefer to see for all of my alerts. Once I see the first alert, I know whether I need to take action, and until the recovery message comes through, there isn't much benefit in being informed of something I already know.
Unless you specify REPEAT in your alerts.cfg, you should get an email every 30 minutes. This is how alerts for the conn test would behave on a default installation. But you can specify REPEAT to be whatever you need. For more on REPEAT keyword, refer to the man page for alerts.cfg <https://xymon.sourceforge.io/xymon/help/manpages/man5/alerts.cfg.5.html>, and the help page on Configuring Xymon Alerts <https://xymon.sourceforge.io/xymon/help/xymon-alerts.html>.
Cheers Jeremy
On Thu, 20 Aug 2020 at 11:11, Rod <rodbass63 at gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
I wrote a script test and it's not sending the emails every 5 minutes. It sends the first email as soon as I initiate the false positive and it will send the email when it recovers but nothing in between -- sometimes I leave the false positive for 20 minutes. I looked in the mail logs and I see the same thing: the email on the first false positive and the email on the recovery but nothing in between. The default conn test does send the email every 5 minutes as expected but.
Here is what my alerts.cfg looks like for that host:
HOST=New-xxxxx-Patient-Portal SERVICE=new-xxxx-patient-portal,http,sslcert,conn MAIL rod.xxxxx at xxxxxx.com COLOR=red RECOVERED MAIL rod.xxxxx at xxxxxxx.com COLOR=yellow RECOVERED MAIL nur.xxxxx at xxxxxxx.com COLOR=red RECOVERED MAIL john.xxxxx at xxxxxxx.com COLOR=red RECOVERED MAIL oleg.xxxxxx at xxxxxxx.com COLOR=red RECOVERED MAIL pm_xxxxx at xxxxxxx.com COLOR=yellow RECOVERED
Here is the tasks.cfg
[new-xxxxxx-patient-portal] ENVFILE /usr/lib/xymon/server/etc/xymonserver.cfg CMD /usr/lib/xymon/server/ext/States/nm/xxxxxx.pl LOGFILE /var/log/xymon/xxxxxxx.log INTERVAL 5m
Here is the hosts.cfg part: xx.192.160.xx <hostname> # new-xxxxxx-patient-portal sslcert https://xxxxxxxx NOCOLUMNS:info,trends,clientlog,ports,procs,files,inode
Any help will be appreciated.
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