repeated alert actions every n'th time

[rasc]

Hi,

we sincerely miss the option to repeat actions not 20 times or forever but every 100th time.
Why? Cause we'd like to check [whatever] every minute (it might have got 'alive' in between) but not get a mail every minute. On the other hand we do not want to only get a single mail at 'start'. We'd like to get a mail every 100th occurence. Or every 67th, You get it, I think.

Thank you.

[KS-Soft Europe]

You may use Advanced mode actions with expression like the following:
('%SimpleStatus%'=='DOWN') and (%Recurrences% mod 100==1)
action will be started on 1, 101, 201, ... Bad recurrence.

Please check for details at:
http://www.ks-soft.net/hostmon.eng/mfra ... ncedaction

[rasc]

Thank you, "Mr. Europe"!

[KS-Soft Europe]

You are welcome !

[rasc]

action will be started on 1, 101, 201, ... Bad recurrence.

...almost never a good idea to alert on the very 1st error. We at least re-test before alerting.
So I slightly enhanced your example (it's easy once one knows where to start off ) by "and (%Recurrences% > 1)"

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('%SimpleStatus%'=='DOWN') and (%Recurrences% > 1) and (%Recurrences% mod 100==1)

Just in case someone else stumbles over your tip.


Regards

[KS-Soft Europe]

...almost never a good idea to alert on the very 1st error. We at least re-test before alerting.

Thanks for your notice.

('%SimpleStatus%'=='DOWN') and (%Recurrences% > 1) and (%Recurrences% mod 100==1)

With this expression, you'll get alert only after 101-st Bad status.
Maybe it's better to start first action after 5-th or 10-th bad recurrence?
In such case expression will look like the following:
('%SimpleStatus%'=='DOWN') and (%Recurrences% mod 100==10)