Can the ‘Silences’ feature on the Alertmanager UI be used to silence new alerts before they are sent to a receiver? This would be useful while performing an upgrade in an environment.
My alerts contain a label 'env' (to identify a given environment) and I can add a silence rule via the UI. The problem is that it will only silence AFTER the first occurrence of an alert in the 'env'/environment. In the meantime, an alert has been sent to the Alertmanager receiver.
I have also tried changing values in the alertmanager.conf for
group_interval from 5m to 10s, and group_wait from 30s to 60s.
Alternatively, I could update the receiver when there is a match for the 'env' label...but I would prefer to use the 'Silences' feature (either in UI or API - have not tried using the API to do silence).
Any inputs would be appreciated.
(Using version 0.14.0 of Alertmanager)
I've tried silencing in UI as well as throughly Curl(both are alike) You can do in UI itself for betterment and perfection. I did not get any alerts. The moment alerts fired, it was silenced on the first occurrence itself. Kindly let me know what you have tried. May be you can try regex option if you are not sure of the exact value.
Related
I am trying to update an existing activity stream entry e.g. the title of the entry.
Here I found the code for the creation of the new entry:
Link
But I could not find any reference how do I update an existing entry?
Additional information:
I use IBM Connections 4.5 and the IBM SBT
I create the entries with a system user to other users with the flag
'actionable'
Here my questions:
Which URL?
Which Method (PUT?)?
Which Json?
And another question about the actionable flag:
How can I change the actionable flag for an entry of another user? The description for my own entries is described on slide 37 here: Link
Thank you so much !
Markus
Ok, I think I fully understand the issue now. As suggested this is not supported, but there is a way you can achieve the same result.
First of all why isn't it supported . . .
Events are a point in time (and they were accurate at that point in time)
A new event on the same object supersedes it (as it's now the most interesting) but
doesn't invalidate it (it can still be seen in history)
The Actionable view does not show a rolled up view, instead it shows all events that are marked actionable (and there may be multiple actions related to any given Object)
What you can do . . .
If you want to replace an entry in the Actionable view, you can remove the event from the actionable view (it is just removed from that view and could still be seen in event history)
You can then add another event to the actionable view (which as the latest event will also supersede events in other rolled up views)
Removing the actionable flag is here ->http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/appdevwiki.nsf/xpDocViewer.xsp?lookupName=IBM+Connections+4.5+API+Documentation#action=openDocument&res_title=Support_for_Saved_and_Actionable_events&content=pdcontent
an activity stream object is treated an an immutable object in IBM Connections.
you can Create Delete and Read.
You can use a rollup-id in IBM Connections.
In order to address the scenario where a user posts a file and 200 people 'like' it, filling up their Activity Stream, rollup needs to be performed. This means:
Only the latest event on any given object is shown
The 2 most recent comments are returned.
http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/appdevwiki.nsf/xpAPIViewer.xsp?lookupName=IBM+Connections+4.0+API+Documentation#action=openDocument&res_title=Support_for_Rollup&content=apicontent
Just to extend the last answer, delete is not directly supported in the Activity Stream in IBM Connections, though a means of propagating delete based on deletion of an Object was introduced in IBM Connections 4.5.
However it does seem like submitting a new event with an appropriate rollup id is what you're looking for. That way users will see the latest, but the history remains and can be seen if desired.
How do I create an activity feed rule that writes an auto post on the Record Wall of a case when an email is automatically assigned (made Regarding) to that case because of its tracking token?
Our users are having trouble realising that there is something new to look at in the case and this would go a long way to preventing them from missing an important event.
EDIT:
These solutions have already been considered
They don't want follow up tasks.
The email is already displayed in a grid on the case
They don't want more Queues to check.
They don't want more emails to deal with.
This user is recalcitrant to say the least...they only want a note to appear on the record wall of the case.
To accomplish this with little/no coding, you could:
1) create a task or other activity that would show up on the activity feed. This is easily accomplished via workflow.
2) display the email/other activities in a grid on the case.
3) also set up queues to handle this.
4) send an email to the owner of the case when an activity gets appended to it.
There are a lot of options to resolve the issue of notifying users that their case has additional info.
EDIT:
Your comments are accurate and well received. Can't you do something as simple as create a workflow that will create a post when an email is created and/or when set regarding field changes. Then you can check within the workflow that the set regarding is for a case or else cancel the workflow. Within the post record, set the type to auto and the regarding to the same regarding as the email. (I was unable to get the record wall part working in my local VM, so I assumed that any post record regarding the case should show up in the case, but I couldn't test that).
I build a plugin that runs in account update message that makes some validation not to duplicate the record. But if I try to disable that account or merge with another one it triggers the plugin.
How can I tell if the plugin was triggered by an activate/deactivate/merge action, or event mode like the one in CRM Dynamics 2011 Save Event Arguments Reference?
To add to Pete Oakey's answer, you can actually tell your plugin to fire only when certain fields are changed at the registration phase, in addition to testing this in actual code # runtime, by changing the "Filtering Attributes" of the plugin step. So unless your validation logic specifically needs the StateCode/StatusCode attributes to correctly process, you can filter those two attributes out, or just include the attributes your validation logic needs.
Original answer:
I believe you can reference the IExecutionContext.Depth Property of the IPluginExecutionContext object.
Every time a running plug-in or Workflow issues a message request to
the Web services that triggers another plug-in or Workflow to execute,
the Depth property of the execution context is increased. If the depth
property increments to its maximum value within the configured time
limit, the platform considers this behavior an infinite loop and
further plug-in or Workflow execution is aborted. The maximum depth
(8) and time limit (one hour) are configurable by the Microsoft
Dynamics CRM administrator.
So you can use an if statement to check if Depth > 1.
One way would be to compare the before and after values of what's changed on the account entity in the plugin. For example if you have only have active (if that's the right property name) in the values - you can look at the after value to see what's happened.
Another way would be to add a specific plugin for these messages and set some property/flag which you can check in the update plugin. Obviously this would have to run before the update plugin.
With the 1.6 SDK (Version 2011-08-18) you can change the invisibility timeout of a queue message. However, reading the REST documentation, it would seem to show that you have to post back the message. I understand that the operation is meant to update the entire message (including invisibility timeout), but I only want to change the invisibility timeout without having to resend the entire message. Is this possible?
Thanks,
Erick
Update the Queue Message with Flag Settings MessageUpdateFields.Visibility regardless of the value of Message contents. e.g.
message.SetMessageContent("");
queue.UpdateMessage(message, visibilityTimeout, MessageUpdateFields.Visibility);
this will not change the message contents to Empty string and contents will remain intact and would update the Visibility timeout only.
To update the contents as well as visibility timeout,
queue.UpdateMessage(message, visibilityTimeout, MessageUpdateFields.Content | MessageUpdateFields.Visibility);
Update message has capabilities of updating the timeout. More details can be found here http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsazure/hh452234.aspx
I need to trigger alert, if value of particular column (say marks<8, send mail to manager) changes.
What should I do?
Some kinds of lists (e.g. tasks) allow to send alerts when someone changes an item that appears in a particular view. Read the article Use SharePoint Filtered Views to Stop Sending Alerts to Yourself to get all the details (appropriate section begins with Well you need to set up a filtered view).
If you list supports this feature, first create a view that shows only the items that satisfy your marks<8 condition and then configure an alert that uses this view.
You can implement an event handler on the list to do this :
http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/UploadFile/Chandresh.P/EventHandler04292009070324AM/EventHandler.aspx