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

[Marc Haber]

Hi.

no takers?

Greetings
Marc

On Thu, Oct 02, 2008 at 10:27:12AM +0200, Marc Haber wrote:
> this is from a SmokeAlert foo cleared e-mail created by smokeping
> 2.0.9 (from Debian stable):
> 
> Pattern
> -------
> ==0%,>0%,*12*,>0%,*12*,>0%,*28*
> 
> Data (old --> now)
> ------------------
> 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?

Btw, the workaround doesn't seem to work around the issue either.

Greetings
Marc

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