Re: [Mon-devel] refinement for ackalerts

[Ed R. <er...@pa...>]

On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 07:49:41PM -0400, David Nolan wrote:
> 
> --On Friday, May 06, 2005 7:27 PM -0400 Ed Ravin <er...@pa...> wrote:
> >I love the ackalerts, but they're going out even if someone acknowledges
> >a problem before the down alert has been issued.  This patch fixes that:
> 
> Oh cool, they work?  I wrote that code a long time ago but never got around 
> to doing anything with it in our environment.  I'd never actually done much 
> testing of it.  :)

I was wondering why the new alerts weren't documented.  :-)

Yes, ackalerts work fine, except for that one problem - when we
ack an alarm to avoid sending mail and other notices, the ackalert
goes out, and since alerts_sent is now non-zero, an upalert will
go out too.

Also, it would be nice if we could suppress subsequent alerts once
something is acked - if it's acked, someone has (hopefully) taken
responsibility for it and there's no need to send more alerts.

	-- Ed