It means the alert has never been checked.
 
adam.
 
------ Original Message ------
From: "Ben Steele" <ben@bensteele.org>
To: "Observium Network Observation System" <observium@observium.org>
Sent: 10/22/2014 8:15:36 PM
Subject: [Observium] Alerts in "Other" state
 
Hi,

I have quite a few alerts stuck in the "Other" state, any idea on what causes this?

I had this problem a while ago and then it seemed to disappear after creating a few more alerts and several svn updates so i'm not really sure what cleared it but after adding more devices it's back again. I've tried regenerating the alerts a few times but that makes no difference, is there some debug that can be turned on to work out what is going on here?

It's across multiple alert checkers and even something as simple as "device status eq 0" for a device down check has multiple alerts stuck in "other" state. Hovering over the alert shows an empty status:

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Cheers