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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>While looking at an answer for Tom Schmitt, I opted test by disabling “ALL” on a couple of my own systems for a minute.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>When the scheduled “disable” (i.e. maintenance mode) tasks ran, xymon threw a yellow alarm for xymond with the following:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Latest error messages:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Ran scheduled task 2 from XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX: disable host1,my-domain,org.* 1 <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Disabled by: me @ ###.###.###.###<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Reason: Testing<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Ran scheduled task 1 from XXX.XXX.XXX.YYY: disable host2,my-domain,org.* 1 <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Disabled by: me @ ###.###.###.###<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Reason: Testing<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I’m trying to figure out:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>a)<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span><![endif]>Is this the correct behavior? It seems to me that if you put a system (or systems) into maintenance, an error state should not be reported…especially on a scheduled task.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>b)<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span><![endif]>Why is the error state showing up on the xymon server’s xymond indicator?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>c)<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span><![endif]>This may be more my preference than the majority. When the systems come back from maintenance, if the various monitor statuses haven’t changed since the pre-maintenance period, wouldn’t it be better to have those status indicators reflect that the actual status is the same as previously indicated (i.e. if disk, memory, msgs, ports, etc all reflected normal for more than 24 hours…dark green if you’re using the LED theme, for example…my feeling is that unless there is actually an alarm for those monitors, they should return to the previous state, rather than a state indicating a recent ( < 24hr) change.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Thanks.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>--<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Mike Burger</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>AIX Administrator<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://freedomhome.fhmc.local/intranet/main.jsp" target=content><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;text-decoration:none'><img border=0 width=143 height=70 id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.gif@01CDD39F.863B33A0" alt="cid:image001.gif@01CC72C8.834C1990"></span></b></a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:8.0pt;color:black'>Phone (317) 537-3680</span></b><b><span style='color:black'>, </span></b><b><span style='font-size:8.0pt;color:black'>Fax</span></b><b><span style='color:black'> </span></b><b><span style='font-size:8.0pt;color:black'>(317) 537-4680, Cell (317) 797-2040 </span></b><b><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:8.0pt;color:black'>E-mail: </span></b><span style='font-size:8.0pt;color:#1F497D'><a href="mailto:Anthony.House@freedommortgage.com"><b><span style='color:#1F497D'>Mike.Burger@FreedomMortgage.com</span></b></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.0pt;color:#C00000'>"Once word leaks out that a pirate's gone soft, people begin to disobey you and then it's nothing but work, work, work, all the time." --Westley/The Dread Pirate Roberts<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>
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