Thold host down re-alerting...

[lightenup]

I currently have my default alerting option for 'Repeat Alert after specified number of poller cycles.' set to 96 polls. Does this apply to down host notifications? In other words, once a host is down an initial email will go out (3 polling cycles), then in another 96 polls will a re-trigger email go out stating that the host is still down?

I'm currently running Cacti 8.7g and Thold 0.4.9. I currently have a single host down, it has been for 2980 polls.

Also can someone tell me what is the meaning of the "hosts" line in the Cacti Thold log output:

1/12/2011 11:55:50 AM - SYSTEM THOLD STATS: Time:8.0528 Tholds:3524 Hosts:0
11/12/2011 11:55:42 AM - SYSTEM STATS: Time:40.1900 Method:spine Processes:4 Threads:15 Hosts:611 HostsPerProcess:153 DataSources:101858 RRDsProcessed:0
11/12/2011 11:50:59 AM - SYSTEM camm General STATS: AllTime:6.2925 PurgeTime:0.0006 RuleTime:0.1616 TreeTime:6.1303
11/12/2011 11:50:53 AM - SYSTEM THOLD STATS: Time:8.6398 Tholds:3524 Hosts:0
11/12/2011 11:50:44 AM - SYSTEM STATS: Time:42.3911 Method:spine Processes:4 Threads:15 Hosts:611 HostsPerProcess:153 DataSources:101858 RRDsProcessed:0
11/12/2011 11:47:18 AM - SYSTEM BOOST STATS: Time:1596.4300 RRDUpdates:1017804

[TheWitness]

The number of Down Hosts. I guess it could be labeled better...

[lightenup]

Thanks for that, but what about my original question, is there an ability to re-alert for down hosts? Currently this only seems to work for thresholds created against graphs.

Thanks again,

LiGHTENUP

[TheWitness]

Sounds like a good idea...