Re: Feature request: UDP generic protocol testing

[Martin Pala]

Jan-Henrik Haukeland wrote:
> Yes, thats how the alert system is programmed now. The only  overriding 
> is if alert foo1 was defined in a check-entry, then only  the 
> check-entry alert is sent to foo1. I agree that it is be more  logical 
> if a check-entry override the global list. It's easy to  change this, 
> but it will affect backward compatibility. What do  others think? Should 
> this be changed?

I think we should keep the current behavior - it is useful to join the 
global and local lists. To disable the global alert in particular 
service, i think it could be possible to support something like 'none' 
option in alert filter, such as:

--8<--
set alert foo

check service_1 ...

check service_n ...
 alert foo on { none }
--8<--

=> service_n will not send alert to foo.

Martin