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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Hmm, well I assumed it had always been there, but perhaps it was
added later. I’m running a 4.3 snapshot from a couple months back. man bb-hosts
has this:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>
DOWNTIME=[columns:]day:starttime:endtime:cause[,day:starttime:endtime:cause]<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'> This tag can be used to ignore failed checks during
specific times of the day - e.g. if you run services<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'> that are only monitored e.g. Mon-Fri 8am-5pm, or
you always reboot a server every Monday between 5 and 6<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'> pm.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'> The timespecification consists of<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'> day: W means Mon-Fri ("weekdays"), *
means all days, 0 .. 6 = Sunday .. Saturday. Listing multiple days<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'> is possible, e.g. "60" is valid meaning
"Saturday and Sunday".<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'> starttime: Time to start showing errors, must be
in 24-hour clock format as HHMM hours/minutes. E.g.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'> for 8 am enter "0800", for 9.30 pm enter
"2130"<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'> endtime: Time to stop showing errors.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'> If necessary, multiple periods can be specified.
E.g. to monitor a site 24x7, except between noon and 1<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'> pm, use DOWNTIME=*:0000:1159,*:1300:2359<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'> The interval between starttime and endtime may
cross midnight, e.g. *:2330:0200 would be valid and have<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'> the same effect as *:2330:2400,*:0000:0200.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'> What happens is that if a test fails during the
specified time, it is reported with status BLUE instead<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'> of yellow or red. Thus you can still see when the
service was unavailable, but alarms will not be trig-<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'> gered and the downtime is not counted in the
availability calculations generated by the Hobbit reports.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'> The "columns" setting is optional - it
may be a comma-separated list of status columns in which case the<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'> DOWNTIME setting only applies to these columns.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'> The "cause" string (optional) is a text
that will be displayed on the status web page to explain thy the<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'> system is down.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><a name="_MailEndCompose"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></a></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Wood, Mike
[mailto:Mike.Wood@kci1.com] <br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, July 29, 2008 10:54 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> hobbit@hswn.dk<br>
<b>Subject:</b> RE: [hobbit] monitoring httpd 24x7 (almost)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>My man page only shows
DOWNTIME=day:starttime:endtime:cause[,day:starttime:endtime:cause].<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>It goes on to say that the syntax is the same as
NKTIME. NKTIME doesn’t seem to support a service either, but NK does.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Was there a patch to Hobbit that modified this behavior
and/or man page?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Dugan, Darin D
[EIT] [mailto:dddugan@iastate.edu] <br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, July 29, 2008 10:42 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> hobbit@hswn.dk<br>
<b>Subject:</b> RE: [hobbit] monitoring httpd 24x7 (almost)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Check the man page…DOWNTIME can specify specific columns instead
of the entire host.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Cheers.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Wood, Mike
[mailto:Mike.Wood@kci1.com] <br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, July 29, 2008 8:30 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> hobbit@hswn.dk<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [hobbit] monitoring httpd 24x7 (almost)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Hi All,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>I’d like to
monitor</span> <span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>“<a
href="http://">http://</a>[hostname]:10003” 24x7, except for 10 minutes on
Sunday morning.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>However:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>I can’t use
DOWNTIME in bb-hosts, because that puts the entire host out of service.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>I can’t use
hobbit-clients.cfg, because it doesn’t support any tags that affect the</span> <span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>HTTP column.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>As a
work-around, I can use PROC in hobbit-clients.cfg, but that affects the PROCS
column instead.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Thoughts?</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Or am I
failing my documentation reading skills somewhere?</span> <span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Wingdings'>J</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><a name=""><span style='font-family:"Century","serif";color:black'>Mike Wood</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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