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 > > > IMPORTANT NOTICE ! > This E-Mail transmission and any accompanying attachments may contain > confidential information intended only for the use of the individual or entity > named above. Any dissemination, distribution, copying or action taken in > reliance on the contents of this E-Mail by anyone other than the intended > recipient is strictly prohibited and is not intended to, in anyway, waive > privilege or confidentiality. If you have received this E-Mail in error please > immediately delete it and notify sender at the above E-Mail address. > Agrium uses state of the art anti-virus technology on all incoming and > outgoing E-Mail. We encourage and promote the use of safe E-Mail management > practices and recommend you check this, and all other E-Mail and attachments > you receive for the presence of viruses. The sender and Agrium accept no > liability for any damage caused by a virus or otherwise by the transmittal of > this E-Mail. > > To unsubscribe send a message with UNSUBSCRIBE as subject to > [email protected] > If you use auto-responders (like out-of-the-office messages), then make sure > that they are not send to the list nor to the individual members of the list > that send a message. Doing this will get you removed from the list. ----- Salvador Manzo [ 620 W. 35th St - Los Angeles, CA 90089 e. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] Auxiliary Services IT, Datacenter University of Southern California 818-612-5112 The injury which may possibly be done by defeating a few good laws, will be amply compensated by the advantage of preventing a number of bad ones. -- Alexander Hamilton, Federalist No. 73 on the veto power To unsubscribe send a message with UNSUBSCRIBE as subject to [email protected] If you use auto-responders (like out-of-the-office messages), then make sure that they are not send to the list nor to the individual members of the list that send a message. Doing this will get you removed from the list.
