Re: Sending alerts only on failure, not on recovery

[Chris Metcalf]

Do you welcome patches? I might take a look at making the change myself.

- Chris

On 12/13/06, Martin Pala <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> monit doesn't allow to turn off the recovery event currently. It should
> provide the feedback that the service is up again so the admin can sleep
> in peace again ;) Maybe we can make the recovery alarm optional in the
> future monit versions.
>
> You can also use some workarounds, such as set the mail server or
> client-side filter to remove the recovery message.
>
> Martin
>
> Chris Metcalf wrote:
> > I _love_ monit. Its been very handy and its saved my butt more than a
> > few times.
> >
> > Recently I set it up to email my blackberry with a specially formatted
> > message for critical failures, so that it "pages" me and I can
> > manually verify that everything is OK. Its great, except for the fact
> > that I end up actually getting two alerts - one when the problem
> > occurs and one when its cleared. Thats kind of annoying.
> >
> > Is there any way to set up a particular alert to only be sent on the
> > failure state and not the recovery state?
> >
> > I'm running monit 4.8.1 on Debian.
> >
> > Thanks,
>
>
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