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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Jason,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Have you tried removing “:Backups”?
I had problems using a comment at the end so I just removed mine and it worked
fine.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Clint Simmons<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Network Engineer<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Equifax, Inc.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='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"'> Jason Chambers
[mailto:Jason.Chambers@geosoft.com] <br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, December 18, 2008 11:11 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> 'hobbit@hswn.dk'<br>
<b>Subject:</b> RE: [hobbit] Downtime tag syntax<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA style='color:#1F497D'>Argh!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA style='color:#1F497D'>I don’t want to
answer my PDA every night at 6pm because of a stupid backup job overloading the
CPU and DB. </span><span lang=EN-CA style='font-family:Wingdings;color:#1F497D'>L</span><span
lang=EN-CA style='color:#1F497D'> There has to be a way to get this to work...<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%'><b><span
lang=EN-CA style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#004891'>Jason Chambers<br>
</span></b><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#004891'>IT Help Desk Associate<br>
<br>
</span><b><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:
"Arial Narrow","sans-serif";color:#004891'>GEOSOFT INC.<br>
</span></b><b><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#82B000'>freedom to explore<br>
</span></b><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif";color:#004891'>T +1 416.369.0111 #344<br>
F +1 416.369.9599<br>
<br>
Visit our site at www.geosoft.com<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA style='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"'> Root, Paul
[mailto:Paul.Root@qwest.com] <br>
<b>Sent:</b> December-18-08 11:11 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> hobbit@hswn.dk<br>
<b>Subject:</b> RE: [hobbit] Downtime tag syntax<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:blue'>That syntax looks right.</span><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:blue'>Unfortunately, I think it's just broken. I've been fighting this all
week. I've tried DOWNTIME, TIME on the HOST line of hobbit-alerts.cfg, TIME
with IGNORE.</span><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:blue'>I've tried it with a bogus alarm, and with procs. I had it working
with a bogus alarm, but it always ignores procs.</span><span lang=EN-CA
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:blue'>bbcmd hobbitd_alerts .... parses it correctly,
and you think you're going to get what you want. But then 2:11am the oncall is
still paged.</span><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:blue'>I have this on Solaris 10 (in a zone) with Hobbit 4.2.0 and
yesterday upgraded to Xymon 4.2.2. Same deal.</span><span lang=EN-CA
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:10.0pt'>Paul
Root IM/MNS
Infrastructure </span><span lang=EN-CA><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><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"'> Jason Chambers
[mailto:Jason.Chambers@geosoft.com] <br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, December 18, 2008 7:35 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> 'hobbit@hswn.dk'<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [hobbit] Downtime tag syntax</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA>Hey everyone,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA><br>
I’m having problems with the DOWNTIME: tag on a host as it appears not to be
working. Can anyone see what I am doing wrong?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA>DOWNTIME:cpu,mysql:*:1800:1830:Backups<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%'><b><span
lang=EN-CA style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#004891'>Jason Chambers<br>
</span></b><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#004891'>IT Help Desk Associate<br>
<br>
</span><b><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:
"Arial Narrow","sans-serif";color:#004891'>GEOSOFT INC.<br>
</span></b><b><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#82B000'>freedom to explore<br>
</span></b><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif";color:#004891'>T +1 416.369.0111 #344<br>
F +1 416.369.9599<br>
<br>
Visit our site at www.geosoft.com<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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