Totally agree. But on the other note, like nagios, pagerduty.com, that alert repeat, is configurable. So you can choose to be more paranoid if your org requires that level of attention. Every 10min every half hour or every day. IMHO we should be able to set that up.
On 10/22/14, 8:39 PM, "Adam Armstrong" adama@memetic.org wrote:
The 24-hour re-notification is currently hardcoded, though that will probably change in future
If you want to alert on down ports, shut down all of your ports which aren't in use. Find an intern or junior to do it. I've had to do it at just about every network I've ever inherited.
Without doing that, you can never actually trust any of those alerts, because 80% of them will be false alarms.
adam.
------ Original Message ------ From: "Zhenhui Liang" ZhenhuiLiang@eharmony.com To: "Observium Network Observation System" observium@observium.org Sent: 10/22/2014 8:40:30 PM Subject: [Observium] alert repeat?
Hi,
We have some switches with thousands of ports. I know, we don¹t have administrative down for unused ports. So I set up port down alerts for all ports, so that the initial alert of the down ports, I just ignore so I know those are ports already down. So the theory is that for any following alerts, I will look into them.
But I found out observium will send out the massive port down alerts exactly in 24 hours frequency. How do I disable the persistent alerting? I want observium only alert me once for an event period.
Thanks a lot.
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