Alerts: repeat until problem is solved?

Jeff,

Once an alert condition is met, that particular alert will not fire again.

I believe that the only way to do this is to have multiple alerts set up. An example would be if you have an alert set to trigger if a thread is down for 5, 10, and 15 minutes.

Tim

Hi,

I’m thinking out loud here so please excuse if its a bit rambling.

On your alert create a flag file and run another external job that will monitor the flag every few minutes. If the flag is there send further emails – if its not there then nothing happens.

Create another alert that does the opposite of your original alert i.e. if you alerted on Thread down, then create an alert for thread up. This second alert will check the flag file and delete it and also stop the external monitor process.

Hope this makes sense.

Another option which we use is Nagios (http://www.nagios.ord) that can be setup to respond to your initial email and send continuous reminders until the situation is remedied.

Regards

Garry

I know this is hopefully late, but forgive me, I just joined.  

Another way to retrigger alerts is to touch the site’s default.alrt file.

Jeff,

Experiment with cron.  You may not see what you expect.  For us, even though our default.alrt touch is cron’d to occur once an hour, on the hour, in reality the alert action executes 12 minutes after the hour.  That said, you could still cron these touches for every two minutes (Yeah, kind of bulky, but it may work for you.) for the hours, days, etc. of your choosing.

Cheers!

Phil