Advanced Action syntax

[mandg]

I'm looking to setup an advanced mode action (send email) when a system has been down for 15 minutes. I am currently pinging all systems every 30 seconds, so, should I count the number of consecutive recurrences or is there someway to explicitly define "15 minutes"?

I'm using Hostmon version 6.82. Thanks in advance.

[KS-Soft]

You may use %Recurrences% or %CurrentStatusDuration_sec% variables.
E.g.
('%SimpleStatus%'=='DOWN') and (%Recurrences%=30)
or
('%SimpleStatus%'=='DOWN') and (%CurrentStatusDuration_sec% >= 900) and (%CurrentStatusDuration_sec% < 915)

Regards
Alex

[mandg]

That's perfect, thanks! I only had to add an extra equal sign (=) at the end of the first example. So, the amended expression that I used was:

('%SimpleStatus%'=='DOWN') and (%Recurrences%==30)

Thanks again.

[KS-Soft]

Sorry, my mistake

Regards
Alex

[xcentric]

I need to do something similar in dependency advance mode but having trouble.

In dependency advance mode I use this to get status of another test.
('%::Some Random Test Name::Status%'=='Bad')

But now I want to add the other tests recurrences with the status.

Things I have tried that have not worked are.

[KS-Soft]

1st expression invalid.
In 2nd expression you forgot 1 quotation mark (actually you may remove 1 quotation mark or add another)
('%::Some Random Test Name::Status%'=='Bad') And (%::Some Random Test Name::Recurrences%>=5)
or
('%::Some Random Test Name::Status%'=='Bad') And ('%::Some Random Test Name::Recurrences%'>=5)

Regards
Alex

[xcentric]

Got it. Thank you.

So what are the quotations for? Neccessary? Specifying text strings?

[KS-Soft]

It is nesessary for strings like 'bad', 'host is alive', variables that returns strings, e.g. '%status%', '%reply%
Optional for numbers.

Regards
Alex