On Mar 27, 2012, at 6:41 PM, Charles Crouch wrote:
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I'm using RHQ 4.1 and having some trouble getting alert dampening
working properly. I have defined a number of alerts each with
different dampening rules. Of the three options, only the
consecutive evaluations dampening seems to work. The last N
evaluations and time period options don't seem to work properly. I
am using an alert of my own design,
Can you expand on what you mean by "an alert of my own design"?
I have my own AlertSender included in a server plugin. I just meant it's one I wrote, not one of the standard RHQ alert senders/notifications.
Have you tried the dampening options on a regular metric [absolute value > x] type alert, e.g. on a platform metric?
I tried creating an alert on a platform resource, the free memory metric, absolute threshold > 0, with a dampening of 1 every 10 minutes (see attached images). In the image you can see that it fired 3 times in 3 minutes (collection interval of 1 minute). This is similar to the situation I have with a different resource and metric.