Directly from the man bb command :D
disable HOSTNAME.TESTNAME DURATION <additional text>
Disables a specific test for DURATION minutes. This
will cause the status of this test to be listed as
"blue" on the BBDISPLAY server, and no alerts for this
host/test will be generated. If DURATION is given as
a number followed by s/m/h/d, it is interpreted as being
in seconds/minutes/hours/days respectively. To
disable all tests for a host, use an asterisk "*" for
TESTNAME.
enable HOSTNAME.TESTNAME
Re-enables a test that had been disabled.
So you can execute bb hobbitserver "disable dbservername.* 2h Backup
time" before shutting down the database and bb hobbitserver "enable
dbserver.*" just at the end.
Francesco
-----Original Message-----
From: Charles Jones [mailto:jonescr (at) cisco.com]
Sent: Monday, September 25, 2006 7:56 AM
To: hobbit (at) hswn.dk
Subject: [hobbit] Is there a way to "quietly" disable hosts
that have NOTICE set?
I have the NOTICE flag set for all of my production hosts - I
want pages to go out if someone disables or enables any of them.
However, when backups are done, the oracle databases are
brought down, which triggers an alert. If they are manually
disabled, the NOTICE message goes out which also wakes people
up for no reason.
If I use DOWNTIME in bb-hosts, then I have to specify a
window which is guaranteed to be longer than the possible
time it could take to backup the databases (which is a
dynamic thing which will surely be wrong from time to time).
So what ends up happening is for example, I would specify an
hour of DOWNTIME, but the backups sometimes only take 30 minutes.
That means there is a 30 minute window where a real alert
would be masked, which is unacceptable in a production environment.
I guess what I'm looking for, is a way that I can send a
commands to Hobbit via a shellscript (called from the db
backup script), that would put a host/services in maint mode
(disabled - blue dot), and NOT send a NOTICE page.
-Charles
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