Well. I thought of another way to escalate an ongoing problem (e.g. to a manager) even if it is acked. I could create a monstatus.monitor that checks overall mon status using the client interface and alerts if there is continued failure of (important) service(s). This also has the advantage of providing a high level view.
Anyone doing anything like this? Any thoughts? Cheers, Michael Vogt --- Michael Vogt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 14:09:36 -0800 (PST) > From: Michael Vogt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Alert escalation even if acknowledged > > I'm trying to meet a request to have mon send an alert first to the > on > call person, and then if the problem is not resolved within a certain > time, T2, to a higher level person. The sticky part is that this > should occur even if the condition was ack-ed. > > If not for the ignoring of the ack, I see that I could do this with a > second alert entry (under another period label:) using something like > "alertafter T2". > > In order to ignore the ack, it looks like I would have to set up a > duplicate group:service with the same test but, again, "alertafter > T2" > > Alternatively, it looks like I could easily tweak the code to add a > new > alert type, alertnoack, which acts like alert but disregards the ack > state (and maybe passes the alert plugin the ack state and comment). > I > really don't want to go off on my own. Does this option have any > merit? > An even more elaborate change would have acknowledgment levels and > something like an "alertbelowack num" clause that indicates what > level > of ack squelches that alert (e.g. default is num=1). > > > Are there any other solutions that don't involve configuring a > "duplicate" group:service or changing mon? > > Thanks for any suggestions, > > Michael Vogt > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > > _______________________________________________ > mon mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/mon > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Read only the mail you want - Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail _______________________________________________ mon mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/mon