I may have overlooked this feature, but if not...

David, is there a way of having Simon do nothing on the first or second 'failure', but after 3 in a row, it would then notify/perform a task?

As I demo this product, I am very happy with it. Except for occasional false positives that occur (primarily with a POP server test, but on occasion with a heavily-loaded http system).

In Whistleblower, the notifiers were set up in a manner that each 'failure' could be assigned a notification/task. E.g.,

On the first failure, beep
On the second failure, speak a warning
On the third failure, send an email
On the fourth failure, run a script (to reset a PDU or something similar).

Each 'failure' would have a timeout period, and a lag period in between. If any stage tested OK, then the failure count would be returned to zero.

Presently, I have Simon beep and send an email upon an individual failure. I'm concerned that if I try to implement the APC scripts, or craft my own, the false positive rate would be too high for the health of the server, causing undue resets.

Thoughts on this? Do you see my dilemma? Simon's a beautiful product and will easily replace the MIA Whistleblower in our shop. It is this one last function that has me concerned.

Thank you.