How to use Good Status Action ?

Jax · Post by **Jax** » Wed Jan 28, 2004 1:59 am

I may be missing something obvious but I seem to have a problem with the "Good" Status action.

I want to check cpu, if I have 100% on 3 successive tests I send a sms page, I did that via "Bad" Status Action and all is ok.

Now I want to be be notified if the status of the cpu goes under 100% after being 3 times over 100% so I put a "Good" status action and it sort of works only that if I have 1 test at 100% then as soon as it gets under 100% I get a Status Good message. What I would like is to have a Status Good message only if I get 3 successive test at 100% and then it goes under 100%.

timn · Post by **timn** » Wed Jan 28, 2004 9:19 am

Jax: In the Action Properties Dialog for the 'good test', you simply need to set 'Start when 3 consecutive 'good' results occur.

I do something similar to this that I posted about at:

http://www.ks-soft.net/cgi-bin/phpBB/vi ... php?t=1111

Also, are you making both the 'good' and 'bad' actions part of the same action profile?

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Wed Jan 28, 2004 3:52 pm

Thanks for the reply tim, unfortunately that does not work, if you set the good test at 3 it still send a status good message after 1fail+3 good.

What I want is have the status good message only when we get 3 fail + any number of good 1 or 3 does not matter.

KS-Soft · Post by **KS-Soft** » Wed Jan 28, 2004 4:17 pm

You should use "Action depends on bad one" option.
Quote from the manual:

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.

Regards
Alex

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Thu Jan 29, 2004 12:08 am

Excellent, works fine, you obviously have put a lot of thought into it alex.