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color=#0000ff size=2>Here's another solution....</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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color=#0000ff size=2>Write a script to handle the paging for this server and
service (oracle). It checks to see if the backup is running, if so, don't
page, if not, page.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=921262917-25092006><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>--Pat</FONT></SPAN></DIV><BR>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> Charles Jones [mailto:jonescr@cisco.com]
<BR><B>Sent:</B> Monday, September 25, 2006 1:22 PM<BR><B>To:</B>
hobbit@hswn.dk<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: [hobbit] Is there a way to "quietly"
disable hosts that have NOTICE set?<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV></DIV>If you are oncall, do you want to get woken up by the DISABLE notice
alerts every 5 mins at 3am (or even one of them)? :-)<BR><BR>Before you say
"don't use NOTICE in hobbit-alerts.cfg then", consider that when things are
purposefully disabled for reasons other than scheduled downtime, folks want to
know about it.<BR><BR>-Charles<BR><BR><A class=moz-txt-link-abbreviated
href="mailto:PNIXON@ci.somerville.ma.us">PNIXON@ci.somerville.ma.us</A> wrote:
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cite=mid3AB168498CFD3145A5D7EB4FE9365A6A2DC218@geezil.somerville.ma.us
type="cite"><PRE wrap="">Have your script disable it every five minutes or so until the backup is
done?
-----Original Message-----
From: Charles Jones [<A class=moz-txt-link-freetext href="mailto:jonescr@cisco.com">mailto:jonescr@cisco.com</A>]
Sent: Monday, September 25, 2006 1:03 PM
To: <A class=moz-txt-link-abbreviated href="mailto:hobbit@hswn.dk">hobbit@hswn.dk</A>
Subject: Re: [hobbit] Is there a way to "quietly" disable hosts that have
NOTICE set?
Yep...I tried doing a disable for -1 (until OK), but if you do that while
the service is still green, it immediately recovers.
Ralph Mitchell wrote:
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<BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><PRE wrap="">On 9/25/06, Charles Jones <A class=moz-txt-link-rfc2396E href="mailto:jonescr@cisco.com"><jonescr@cisco.com></A> wrote:
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<BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><PRE wrap=""> The DOWNTIME option in bb-hosts has the ability to set the status of
services blue without sending NOTICE alerts. I would like this same
ability on an interactive basis (via a message to hobbit using the bb
command).
</PRE></BLOCKQUOTE><PRE wrap="">So, essentially you need DOWNTIME to have something like the "until
green again" option that was added to the enable/disable page in 4.2,
right??
Unless I've completely missed your point, for which I apologise in
advance...:)
Ralph Mitchell
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