Ah, I see what you mean.  I think you could still layer multiple alerts to
emulate that behavior, but it wouldn't be pretty.  Multi-step conditional
alerts like what you describe would be VERY useful.

On 11/7/07 16:25, "Brett Hanson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I have a situation where that wouldn't work.  For example:
> You have a check that may automatically recover after the first down (possibly
> a false alarm).  On second down, you are pretty sure that the service needs
> restarting so a restart service command is issued. On third down, you conclude
> the service didn't restart correctly and human intervention is now required.
> The alerting would ideally look like:
> 1st down: No alert
> Up after 1st down: No alert
> 2nd down: Service x is down, attempting service restart
> Up after 2nd down: Service x is UP, service restart successful
> 3rd down: Service x did not respond to restart, take action!
> Up after 3rd down: Service x is UP
> 
> As servers Alive is setup now, you would receive the same service up message
> no matter how many times it was down, including the nuisance alerts for first
> downs.
> 
>>>> Salvador Manzo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 11/7/2007 4:50:05 PM >>>
> Brett,
> Can you do this with two alerts?  DOWN = When x down etc, UP = ONLY when
> back up after a down?  That would let you set the subject text separately.
> 
> It would be nice to have them together, however, in a single alert page.
> 
> On 11/7/07 15:40, "Brett Hanson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
>> I would really like to be able to send out different messages on alerts for
>> when they are down as opposed to when they are up.  For example:
>> 
>> Down message: %p is %s - Sending restart request
>> Up message: %p is %s
>> 
>> 
>> Regards,
>> 
>> 
>> Brett Hanson
>> Systems Analyst, Agrium
> 
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