[smokeping-users] Re: Alert clearing time on edge triggered alerts

[Tobias Oetiker]

Hi Dylan,

for complex alerts you may want to create an alert plugin ...
http://oss.oetiker.ch/smokeping/matcher/index.en.html

hope this helps
tobi

Today Dylan Vanderhoof wrote:

> I have a latency alert for a particular device with the following
> config:
>
> + highlatency
> type = rtt
> edgetrigger = yes
> pattern = >20, >20, >20, >20, >20, >20
> comment = high latency (> 20 ms for 10 min)
>
> My step-time is 120, so it actually triggers after 12 minutes.
>
> The problem I have is that the alert clears after just a single sample
> of <= 20ms.  So the following RTT pattern causes 3 alerts to be sent:
>
> 23,24,25,26,27,27,19,21,23,24,25,26
>
> What I would like to have happen is in effect a "cooldown" time on the
> alert where it requires a full 6 samples of <20ms pings to clear.
>
> Is this something that's even possible?
>
> Thanks,
> Dylan
>
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