Hello

A half year ago I met this problem too in the CE version.

But I got a patch from a member of this list and after I applied it, the alerting works normally.

May be Adam will kill me for this but here is the patch J

Includes/alerts.inc.php, I replaced the following line:

if ((time() - $entry['last_alerted']) < $config['alerts']['interval'] && !isset($GLOBALS['spam'])) { $entry['suppress_alert'] = TRUE; }

with:

if ((time() - $entry['last_alerted']) < 86400 && !isset($GLOBALS['spam'])) { $entry['suppress_alert'] = TRUE; }

I just installed it in a half year ago but later we bought the Professional verison and looks like this patch not needed in it.

Now I checked it and this line in my (Prof version) alerting.inc.php looks like the unpatched version and no problem with the alerting.

So it is just a idea, if you are on the CE, may be you can try it.

Laszlo

From: observium <observium-bounces@observium.org> on behalf of Richard Franks <richardfranks152@gmail.com>
Reply-To: Observium Network Observation System <observium@observium.org>
Date: Thursday 21 July 2016 at 08:17
To: Observium Network Observation System <observium@observium.org>
Subject: Re: [Observium] Alert checker sending email notifications every polling round

I’ve noticed this in my CE version as well, I ended up setting $config['alerts']['interval'] = 86400; at the top of the alerter.php file.

I would love to use subscription edition, but I just can’t get work to shell out for it :(

On 21 Jul 2016, at 01:03, Adam Armstrong <adama@memetic.org> wrote:
It should trigger when the alert goes up or down, and every 24 hours if it is down.

I don't recall any probably with repeated renotification, and your database seems to have the correct data in it.

Either something is weird on your install, or this really is a CE bug :)

Adam.

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On 21 Jul 2016, at 01:01, Daniel Horth <dan@horth.com.au> wrote:
The spam from Observium is ongoing. :(

It’s not just this alert checker - any failed one causes repeated notifications

Can someone confirm my assumption that an alert notification should only be sent when the alert status changes - not each time the polling cycle runs.

In the mean time I’m going to have a dig through the code to work out what is triggering the notifications and why the spam.

Thanks
On 19 Jul 2016, at 5:38 PM, Daniel Horth <dan@horth.com.au> wrote:
If it helps I can send sample DB data for that device_id when back at work tomorrow
On 19 Jul 2016, at 5:33 PM, Daniel Horth <dan@horth.com.au> wrote:
yes - has a timestamp in it

Interface shows last alerted time also, e.g.:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ldmradc2plzsekd/Screenshot%202016-07-19%2010.43.20.png?dl=0
On 19 Jul 2016, at 4:54 PM, Adam Armstrong <adama@memetic.org> wrote:
Is the last_alerted field set in the database?

Adam.

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On 19 Jul 2016, at 02:36, Daniel Horth <dan@horth.com.au> wrote:
Hi all

I have an odd alerting issue where I am receiving email alerts about a failed check each time a polling interval passes. 
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