Hi,
you can filter out the "nonexist" event like this:
set alert foo@bar but not on { nonexist }
You will receive all other alert types, including the execution failure.
Regards,
Martin
On 06 May 2014, at 07:28, John Mee <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We only want to be alerted if the service fails to restart. Is this possible?
>
> That is, if on the first check the service is down then restart it but don't
> bother to send us an alert; if the service is still down two cycles in a row
> - the restart failed - then we need to know about that so send an alert.
>
> I tried if not exist for 2 cycles then alert but found that whilst we'd get
> an alert it would not try to restart.
>
> Tried it again with the below but same result: it sends an alert without
> attempting to restart.
>
> check process mysql with pidfile /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid
> start program = "/etc/init.d/mysql start"
> stop program = "/etc/init.d/mysql stop"
> if not exist then restart
> if not exist for 2 cycles then alert
>
> Can we set it to only send the alert when pain persists?
>
>
> Thanks,
> John.
>
>
>
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