<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" size="2" face="Arial">>HOST=%$HG-VSNL COLOR=red,purple DURATION>7
TIME=*:1100:1030<br> MAIL
$NG-IM-ADMIN<br> MAIL $NG-IM-ONCALL
FORMAT=SMS<br></font></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" size="2" face="Arial">So send alerts from 11:00 am to 10:30 am every
day.<br><br></font></span>Isn't this kind of like dividing by zero? How does this actually work, does it cover all day except that half hour window?<span><font color="#0000ff" size="2" face="Arial"><br></font></span></div>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 12:36 PM, Root, Paul <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Paul.Root@qwest.com">Paul.Root@qwest.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div vlink="purple" link="blue" lang="EN-CA">
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" size="2" face="Arial">I'm getting close.</font></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" size="2" face="Arial"></font></span> </div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" size="2" face="Arial"></font></span> </div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" size="2" face="Arial">What just worked for me in hobbit-alerts.cfg,
was:</font></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" size="2" face="Arial"></font></span> </div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" size="2" face="Arial">HOST=%$HG-VSNL COLOR=red,purple DURATION>7
TIME=*:1100:1030<br> MAIL
$NG-IM-ADMIN<br> MAIL $NG-IM-ONCALL
FORMAT=SMS<br></font></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" size="2" face="Arial">So send alerts from 11:00 am to 10:30 am every
day.</font></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" size="2" face="Arial"></font></span> </div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" size="2" face="Arial"></font></span> </div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" size="2" face="Arial"></font></span> </div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" size="2" face="Arial"> </font></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" size="2" face="Arial">What I'm trying right now is:</font></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" size="2" face="Arial"></font></span> </div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" size="2" face="Arial">HOST=%$HG-VSNL COLOR=red,purple
DURATION>7<br> MAIL
$NG-IM-ADMIN<br> IGNORE SERVICE=procs
TIME=*:1110:1130<br> MAIL
$NG-IM-ONCALL FORMAT=SMS<br></font></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" size="2" face="Arial"></font></span> </div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" size="2" face="Arial">So the email would come, but the page wouldn't happen, and
only on procsm between 11:10 and 11:30 am. </font></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><font face="Arial"><font size="2"><font color="#0000ff"><span>I've had trouble with this, but that was when the
machine was in a large group, so I'm splitting it to it's own group (with it's
backup server).</span><span></span></font></font></font></div>
<div><font color="#0000ff" size="2" face="Arial"></font> </div>
<div><span><font color="#0000ff" size="2" face="Arial">The
former should work for you. It should look like:</font></span></div>
<div><span><font color="#0000ff" size="2" face="Arial"></font></span> </div>
<div><span><font color="#0000ff" size="2" face="Arial">HOST=<HOSTNAME> SERVICE=cpu,mysql COLOR=red DURATION>7
TIME=*:1800:1900</font></span></div>
<div><span> <font color="#0000ff" size="2" face="Arial">MAIL <WHEREVER> FORMAT=SMS</font></span></div>
<div><span><font color="#0000ff" size="2" face="Arial"></font></span> </div>
<div><span><font color="#0000ff" size="2" face="Arial">Test
it with</font></span></div>
<div><span><font color="#0000ff" size="2" face="Arial"></font></span> </div>
<div><span><font color="#0000ff" size="2" face="Arial">bbcmd
hobbitd_alert --test <HOSTNAME> cpu --duration=8
time=1229646890</font></span></div>
<div><span><font color="#0000ff" size="2" face="Arial"></font></span> </div>
<div><span><font color="#0000ff" size="2" face="Arial"></font></span> </div>
<div><span><font color="#0000ff" size="2" face="Arial">the
time value is in epochtime. That number is seconds. It's roughly 6:30 pm
CST.</font></span></div><div class="Ih2E3d">
<div><span></span> </div>
<p><font size="2">Paul Root IM/MNS
Infrastructure </font></p>
<div><font color="#0000ff" size="2" face="Arial"></font> </div><font size="2"></font><br>
</div><blockquote dir="ltr" style="margin-right: 0px;">
<div dir="ltr" align="left" lang="en-us">
<hr>
<font size="2" face="Tahoma"><div class="Ih2E3d"><b>From:</b> Jason Chambers
[mailto:<a href="mailto:Jason.Chambers@geosoft.com" target="_blank">Jason.Chambers@geosoft.com</a>] <br></div><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, December 18,
2008 11:11 AM<div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"><br><b>To:</b> '<a href="mailto:hobbit@hswn.dk" target="_blank">hobbit@hswn.dk</a>'<br><b>Subject:</b> RE: [hobbit]
Downtime tag syntax<br></div></div></font><br></div><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">
<div></div>
<div>
<p><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Argh!</span></p>
<p><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span></p>
<p><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">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 style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: Wingdings;">L</span><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> There has to be a way to get this to
work...</span></p>
<p><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span></p>
<div>
<p style="margin-bottom: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 72, 145); line-height: 115%;">Jason
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<p><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span></p>
<div>
<div style="border-style: solid none none; border-color: rgb(181, 196, 223) -moz-use-text-color -moz-use-text-color; border-width: 1pt medium medium; padding: 3pt 0cm 0cm;">
<p><b><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-US">From:</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-US"> Root,
Paul [mailto:<a href="mailto:Paul.Root@qwest.com" target="_blank">Paul.Root@qwest.com</a>] <br><b>Sent:</b> December-18-08 11:11
AM<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:hobbit@hswn.dk" target="_blank">hobbit@hswn.dk</a><br><b>Subject:</b> RE: [hobbit] Downtime tag
syntax</span></p></div></div>
<p> </p>
<p><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: blue;">That
syntax looks right.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 10pt; 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 style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 10pt; 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 style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 10pt; 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 style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 10pt; 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 style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> </span></p>
<div>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> </span></p></div>
<p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Paul
Root IM/MNS
Infrastructure </span></p>
<div>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> </span></p></div>
<blockquote style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-right: 0cm;">
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> </span></p>
<div style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';" lang="EN-US">
<hr align="center" size="2" width="100%">
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<p style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-US">From:</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-US">
Jason Chambers [mailto:<a href="mailto:Jason.Chambers@geosoft.com" target="_blank">Jason.Chambers@geosoft.com</a>] <br><b>Sent:</b>
Thursday, December 18, 2008 7:35 AM<br><b>To:</b>
'<a href="mailto:hobbit@hswn.dk" target="_blank">hobbit@hswn.dk</a>'<br><b>Subject:</b> [hobbit] Downtime tag syntax</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';" lang="EN-US"></span></p>
<p>Hey everyone,</p>
<p><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?</p>
<p> </p>
<p>DOWNTIME:cpu,mysql:*:1800:1830:Backups</p>
<p> </p>
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Help Desk Associate<br><br></span><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 72, 145); line-height: 115%;">GEOSOFT
INC.<br></span></b><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(130, 176, 0); line-height: 115%;">freedom
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