"Chad Sobotka" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> I'm trying to setup Mon with two periods for one watch group. I'm doing
> this to prevent late night false alarms that are getting rather annoying.
> Here's what I have in mon.cf:
> 
> watch ping
>     service ping
>         description ping all server, routers, firewalls
>         interval 5m
>         monitor fping.monitor
>         period p1: wd {Mon-Sun} hr {7am-6pm}
>             alert mail.alert [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>             alert qpage.alert mon
>             alertevery 1h
>             upalert mail.alert -u [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>             upalert qpage.alert -u mon
[snip]
> 
> I have tested this out and sometimes it does work. I bring a service
> down, go to the web interface, and it reports Failed (No Alerts Sent).
> However, most of the time I get an alert. I have also tried setting the
> first period to just "period:" instead of "period p1:".
> 
> Any ideas?

Personal preference is to use a more frequent interval (2m) but
`alertafter 2 10m'. This seems to cut down lots on FPs - especially
prevalent with ICMP ping services, of course.

HTH,

~Tim
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