Question/wish

ceevulukwu · Post by **ceevulukwu** » Thu Jun 21, 2012 10:01 am

here is a scenario, let say one of my service goes bad and then it goes back to good... like a hick up is there a way for me to receive an email when it turns back good.. but only when a service goes bad

KS-Soft Europe · Post by **KS-Soft Europe** » Thu Jun 21, 2012 10:09 am

You may enable "Action depends on bad one" option for corresponding "good" action.
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Action depends on "bad" one
This optional parameter is available for "Good" actions only. You can set "Good" action dependable on a "Bad" action. Why do you need it? For example you defined "Bad" action to send an e-mail notification to the network administrator when test fails 3 times consecutively (start when 3 consecutive "Bad" results occur), also you defined «Good» action to send a notification when the test status changes to "Good". What will happen if test fails 1 or 2 times and after this it restores "Good" status? HostMonitor will not send a notification about failure (because test did not fail 3 times) but the program will send notification about restoring "Good" status. To avoid unnecessary "Good" action execution you can mark "Action depends on "bad" one" option and select "Bad" action. In this case HostMonitor will start "Good" action only if corresponding "Bad" action was executed.
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http://www.ks-soft.net/hostmon.eng/mfra ... pendsOnBad

KS-Soft Europe · Post by **KS-Soft Europe** » Thu Jun 21, 2012 10:41 am

This option ("Action depends on bad one") is usefull when you are using Contion to start Bad action like: "Start when N consecutive "Bad" results occur" where N>1.
Or maybe you want to start "Good" action only after test goes from "Bad" to "Ok" status, but not from "Unknown" to "Ok" status ?