maint.pl and alarms

["Christopher T. Beers" <ctbeers (at) syr.edu>]

Last night I had the first opportunity to use maint.pl.  After performing 
so tasks to get it to work (Let apache have permissions to bb commands, let 
apache run at jobs (may want to put a hint about this)) I was able to 
schedule a downtime for a particular machine from 8:30 - 9:00 this morning.

I received no alarms between 8:30 and 9:00 so I was happy it worked. 
However at 9am when hobbit enabled the service, hobbit-alert sent 4 alarms 
in purple states for the various test.  Within minutes they went green 
after hobbit performed the test (content, https, sslcert and conn).  This 
seems like a bug.  Shouldn't hobbit try to poll the service just before 
enabling (or give some grace period) so it will come on in a green state 
(and not purple)?

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Christopher T. Beers
Lead UNIX Architect - System Infrastructure Services (SIS)
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