Notifier Options

The Notifier Options page of the Notifier Info pane lets you specify how this notifier should be categorized: for changes, for failures, for recoveries, or some combination, as described below:

Change

Check this box if this notifier is appropriate for changes. This will simply make it appear in the Change pop-up menu in the Notifiers page of the Test Info pane, so it can be chosen as a change notifier for any tests.

- after [] consecutive changes

Enter how often to report changes. If the entered value is 1, this notifier will be use every time tests that use it notice a change. If 2 is entered, the notifier will be used every second time. And so on. If you have a test checking frequently, and the site tends to change often, you may only want to hear about it occasionally.

Failure

Similar to the Change checkbox above, this indicates that this notifier can be used for failures, e.g. when a site goes down.

- after [] consecutive errors

Enter how often to report errors. Similar to the field for changes, this field controls how often to report a failure. Using a larger number will give the site a chance to recover before reporting the error – useful for an e-mail notifier.

Only notify once for each failure

If this box is checked, the failure is only reported once. It won't notify again until the site is back up.

Recovery

Similar to the Change checkbox above, this indicates that this notifier can be used for recoveries, e.g. when a site comes back up after a failure.

- after [] recoveries

Enter how often to report recoveries. Normally you'd probably want to leave this at 1, so every recovery is reported, but you can set it to a higher value if you only occasionally want to know when a site comes back up.

Only notify if failure notified

If this box is checked, the recovery is not reported if there hasn't been a failure notification of the same kind. This allows a brief outage to be ignored by the failure and recovery notifiers, if desired.