[hobbit] Recommendation on setting regular maintenance exclusion for reporting

[Ulric Eriksson]

On Fri, 21 Nov 2008, Jason Hand wrote:

> These are a variety of monitored entities including windows machines and web
> sites.
>
> How would that work as you describe?  Do I just substitute the days,
> "yourhobbitserver" with the name or localhost, "yourhobbitclient" with the
> hostname of the client to disable, "60" with number of minutes to disable
> it, and then the "Scheduled reboot" would be the cause?

Right. Actually, "yourhobbitclient" would be, for example:

web1,example,com.cpu

to disable just the cpu test on the client web1.example.com, or

web1,example,com.*

to disable all tests on the same client.

> And this cron job would run on the Hobbit server right?

Not necessarily, but that would be a good place to run it.

Ulric