[Feature]: Host up/down alerts should look at system uptime values
What is the installation method of your PatchMon server?
Docker
What is the version of your PatchMon server?
2.0.2
Briefly describe the feature
Host up or down should look to systemuptime values
Detailed description
I have noticed that the reporting notifies when the agent disconnects or if the PatchMon server goes offline or reboots.
If the check looked at the monitored server's system uptime value this could be prevented.
Why is this useful?
Gives a more accurate alerting scope - notify only when the server goes down and comes back up. If PatchMon goes down, then hopefully you'd have something else monitoring that :)
If an agent disconnects and then reconnects, that can be a separate alert if not already, but if it checked the server's uptime then no need for false positives.
2 Comments
Thinking about your feedback, it may be best to rename the current host up / down to "Agent up / down" because that's essentially what it is.
Host up / down should reflect hosts uptime being lesser than the previous check.
Is that in line with your feedback?
Yes, I think renaming to agent up/down would make more sense! I'd be happy with that!