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JHO
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 Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2011 9:50 am Post subject: eMail sending in case of check-errorrs |
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Hi all,
I am monitoring websites that are not very reliable, so I often get check errors (timeout etc.) for these pages.
I use the "Send e-mail" feature in conjunction with the "Mark as read" option of WSW.
The check intervall (Autocheck) ist set for every 90 minutes.
So if the website is not reachable I get one error-message (eMail) every 90 minutes.
My question now, is it possible to reduce the error mails? It would be sufficient enough to get an eMail after the 5th or 10th error occures.
In the "program configuration" (check tab/general) I've set "Alert after 6 errors in a row", but this dosn't seems to work.
I get an error message on every bookmark check.
Has anybody an Idea.
Thanks
Joachim |
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Martin Aignesberger
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| Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2011 12:28 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | The check intervall (Autocheck) ist set for every 90 minutes.
So if the website is not reachable I get one error-message (eMail) every 90 minutes. |
You should only get an e-mail notification when WSW detects updates, not when an error is detected.
So, when a bookmark check has an error, WSW shouldn't send an e-mail.
| Quote: | My question now, is it possible to reduce the error mails? It would be sufficient enough to get an eMail after the 5th or 10th error occures.
In the "program configuration" (check tab/general) I've set "Alert after 6 errors in a row", but this dosn't seems to work. |
This option only marks the bookmark as unread within the WSW user interface, but it doesn't trigger the configured bookmark actions.
| Quote: | | I get an error message on every bookmark check. |
Do you probably have enabled the bookmark option "Alert/Actions on errors" in the Check tab? In that case WSW will send an e-mail when an error is detected.
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JHO
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| Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2011 1:08 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | Do you probably have enabled the bookmark option "Alert/Actions on errors" in the Check tab? In that case WSW will send an e-mail when an error is detected. |
Yes Martin, I need to be informed if a website is not reachable for an extended length of time.
How else shold I distinguish between "No update has happen" and "The website dosn't exist anymore"? Therefore I have checked the "Alert/Actions on errors".
But I only need an error mail if such an error is pending over a long time. Temporary connection errors are uninteresting.
So I think it would be nice to have an option to limit such error mails in the future.
Many Thanks.
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Martin Aignesberger
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| Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2011 1:50 pm Post subject: |
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This is not possible at the moment, but I have added it to the wish list. Such an enhancement makes sense.
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John
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| Posted: Thu Dec 15, 2011 2:51 pm Post subject: |
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| I agree, this would be a very helpful addition. |
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gelito
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| Posted: Thu Dec 22, 2011 2:11 pm Post subject: |
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Agree, this will be useful.
I also try to monitor broken URLs and what I do is that I:
- create a log file using script report after each Autowatch queue (there is currently no 'file_exists' check possible in report script so I overwrite it by naming files with current date, no time components included in name).
- Report is created for bookmarks from Errors folder and shows their name, url and status. Actually I use special virtual folder of Errors, where I list all bookmarks with status containing 'Error' word, but excluding some cases where Error actually is kind of expected ($date function in URL, black-listed word found, page content has less... etc.).
- Having such daily reports, I then have a simple app that processes those files and checks if error was found for same bookmark in last x reports (to avoid cases of temporary outages of websites - in my case I assume 2 consecutive days is enough).
- Then this app creates locally a new htm file with list limited to bookmarks which repeatedly shown errors in daily logs.
- Finally I have WSW bookmark to check this last report file and I receive e-mails with list of most probable broken URLs.
Hope that helps for time being.
Bests,
Adam |
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