If the set of recovery actions for the rule starts with ‘Check State Again’, this will cause this issue. Error Handling Rules must first take an action from the list of recovery actions, before the ‘Check State Again’ escalation action can be used.

If it is desired to start with the ‘Check State Again’ escalation action, effectively adding a time buffer before the desired Escalation Action is carried out  (‘Send Alert’ in the example below), insert a simple Recovery action before the ‘Check State Again’. In the example below the action ‘get CPU Load’  has been added before the  ‘Check State Again’ escalation action.

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