[hobbit] Downtime tag syntax

Thu Dec 18 18:56:03 CET 2008

Since I'm using the * the time stamp wraps around. 

It just worked, the way I wanted it. I forced a red condition during a
ignore time window, and I got the email during the window, after the
window expired,
the page came through. 

Looks like other emails said your format was wrong. Someone had the
format DAY:SERVICE:START:END:COMMENT. 
That doesn't match up with the web page man pages. 

What I have down here worked 1 hour ago on Xymon 4.2.2 compiled on
Solaris 10 8/07 in a zone.

Paul Root         IM/MNS Infrastructure    

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	From: Josh Luthman [mailto:josh at imaginenetworksllc.com] 
	Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2008 11:43 AM
	To: hobbit at hswn.dk
	Subject: Re: [hobbit] Downtime tag syntax

	>HOST=%$HG-VSNL COLOR=red,purple DURATION>7 TIME=*:1100:1030
	        MAIL $NG-IM-ADMIN
	        MAIL $NG-IM-ONCALL FORMAT=SMS

	So send alerts from 11:00 am to 10:30 am every day.

	Isn't this kind of like dividing by zero?  How does this
actually work, does it cover all day except that half hour window?

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	On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 12:36 PM, Root, Paul
<Paul.Root at qwest.com> wrote:

		I'm getting close.

		What just worked for me in hobbit-alerts.cfg, was:

		HOST=%$HG-VSNL COLOR=red,purple DURATION>7
TIME=*:1100:1030
		        MAIL $NG-IM-ADMIN
		        MAIL $NG-IM-ONCALL FORMAT=SMS

		So send alerts from 11:00 am to 10:30 am every day.

		What I'm trying right now is:

		HOST=%$HG-VSNL COLOR=red,purple DURATION>7
		        MAIL $NG-IM-ADMIN
		        IGNORE SERVICE=procs TIME=*:1110:1130
		        MAIL $NG-IM-ONCALL FORMAT=SMS

		So the email would come, but the page wouldn't happen,
and only on procsm between 11:10 and 11:30 am. 
		I've had trouble with this, but that was when the
machine was in a large group, so I'm splitting it to it's own group
(with it's backup server).

		The former should work for you. It should look like:

		HOST=<HOSTNAME> SERVICE=cpu,mysql COLOR=red DURATION>7
TIME=*:1800:1900
		    MAIL <WHEREVER> FORMAT=SMS

		Test it with

		bbcmd hobbitd_alert --test <HOSTNAME> cpu --duration=8
time=1229646890

		the time value is in epochtime. That number is seconds.
It's roughly 6:30 pm CST.

		Paul Root         IM/MNS Infrastructure    

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			From: Jason Chambers
[mailto:Jason.Chambers at geosoft.com] 

			Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2008 11:11 AM 

			To: 'hobbit at hswn.dk'
			Subject: RE: [hobbit] Downtime tag syntax

			Argh!

			I don't want to answer my PDA every night at 6pm
because of a stupid backup job overloading the CPU and DB. L There has
to be a way to get this to work...

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			From: Root, Paul [mailto:Paul.Root at qwest.com] 
			Sent: December-18-08 11:11 AM
			To: hobbit at hswn.dk
			Subject: RE: [hobbit] Downtime tag syntax

			That syntax looks right.

			Unfortunately, I think it's just broken. I've
been fighting this all week. I've tried DOWNTIME, TIME on the HOST line
of hobbit-alerts.cfg, TIME with IGNORE.

			I've tried it with a bogus alarm, and with
procs. I had it working with a bogus alarm, but it always ignores procs.

			bbcmd hobbitd_alerts ....    parses it
correctly, and you think you're going to get what you want. But then
2:11am the oncall is still paged.

			I have this on Solaris 10 (in a zone) with
Hobbit 4.2.0 and yesterday upgraded to Xymon 4.2.2. Same deal.

			Paul Root         IM/MNS Infrastructure    

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				From: Jason Chambers
[mailto:Jason.Chambers at geosoft.com] 
				Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2008 7:35
AM
				To: 'hobbit at hswn.dk'
				Subject: [hobbit] Downtime tag syntax

				Hey everyone,

				I'm having problems with the DOWNTIME:
tag on a host as it appears not to be working. Can anyone see what I am
doing wrong?

				DOWNTIME:cpu,mysql:*:1800:1830:Backups

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