[smokeping-users] Alert Pattern - why does this not match

[Marc Haber]

Hi,

this is from a SmokeAlert foo cleared e-mail created by smokeping
2.0.9 (from Debian stable):

Pattern
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==0%,>0%,*12*,>0%,*12*,>0%,*28*

Data (old --> now)
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loss: 0%, 0%, 0%, 0%, 0%, 0%, 0%, 0%, 0%, 0%, 0%, 0%, 0%, 0%, 0%, 0%, 0%, 0%, 0%, 0%, 0%, 0%, 0%, 0%, 0%, 0%, 0%, 0%, 0%, 0%, 0%, 5%, 0%, 0%, 0%, 0%, 0%, 5%, 0%, 0%, 0%, 0%, 5%, 0%, 0%, 0%, 0%, 0%, 0%, 0%, 0%, 0%, 0%, 0%, 0%, 0%
rtt: 1ms, 1ms, 1ms, 1ms, 1ms, 1ms, 1ms, 1ms, 1ms, 1ms, 1ms, 1ms, 1ms, 1ms, 1ms, 1ms, 1ms, 1ms, 1ms, 1ms, 1ms, 1ms, 1ms, 1ms, 1ms, 1ms, 1ms, 1ms, 1ms, 1ms, 1ms, 1ms, 1ms, 1ms, 1ms, 1ms, 1ms, 1ms, 1ms, 1ms, 1ms, 1ms, 1ms, 1ms, 1ms, 1ms, 1ms, 1ms, 1ms, 1ms, 1ms, 1ms, 1ms, 1ms, 1ms, 1ms

The loss data row still has three >0% items, and the trailing *28*
should indicate that smokeping shouldn't care about whether the last
non-zero data point is last or not. But the alert is still raised when
the last data point is non-zero and cleared when the last data point
becomes zero again.

In the mean time, I have modified the pattern to read
==0%,>0%,*12*,>0%,*12*,>0%,*28*,>=0%
and we'll see whether that helps.

What have I been doing wrong, and is my workaround the desired one?

Greetings
Marc

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