<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>I just stop the sendmail daemon. That host isn't for anything else, so that works OK. I clear out the mqueue directories before I start it again. <br><br><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">____ *Note: UMDNJ is now Rutgers-Biomedical and Health Sciences*<br>|| \\UTGERS |---------------------*O*---------------------<br>||_// Biomedical | Ryan Novosielski - Senior Technologist<br>|| \\ and Health | <a href="mailto:novosirj@rutgers.edu" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="link" x-apple-data-detectors-result="3">novosirj@rutgers.edu</a>- 973/972.0922 (2x0922)<br>|| \\ Sciences | OIRT/High Perf & Res Comp - MSB C630, Newark<br> `'</span></div><div><br>On Oct 23, 2015, at 10:19, Root, Paul T <<a href="mailto:Paul.Root@centurylink.com">Paul.Root@CenturyLink.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><span>I do a similar thing. If we have a xymon storm, like if we lose a WAN link to a major part of our network, we will change the alias of who receives the email to 'nobody'.</span><br><span></span><br><span>That way, there is still the paper trail of notifications, but the inbox doesn't get hammered.</span><br><span></span><br><span>-----Original Message-----</span><br><span>From: Xymon [<a href="mailto:xymon-bounces@xymon.com">mailto:xymon-bounces@xymon.com</a>] On Behalf Of Becker Christian</span><br><span>Sent: Friday, October 23, 2015 1:34 AM</span><br><span>To: 'Eli'</span><br><span>Cc: xymon</span><br><span>Subject: Re: [Xymon] Xymon maintaienance</span><br><span></span><br><span>Hello,</span><br><span></span><br><span>we do this that way, that using a script in cron, at a certain time we copy alerts.cfg to alerts.cfg.work and copy an empty alerts.cfg.empty to alerts.cfg.</span><br><span>If the file alerts.cfg is empty, there's no reason for Xymon to do any alerting.</span><br><span>After this certain time, we copy the original file alerts.cfg back in place.</span><br><span></span><br><span>For my opinion this is a bit easier to do than writing a DOWNTIME statement to all of your nodes that are configured in hosts.cfg</span><br><span></span><br><span>Regards</span><br><span>Christian</span><br><span></span><br><span>_________________________________</span><br><span>Mittelrhein-Verlag GmbH</span><br><span>August-Horch-Straße 28</span><br><span>D-56070 Koblenz</span><br><span>Verleger und Geschäftsführer: Walterpeter Twer</span><br><span>Reg.-Gericht Koblenz HRB 121</span><br><span>Finanzamt Koblenz Str.Nr. 22 65 10 285 2</span><br><span><a href="http://www.rhein-zeitung.de">www.rhein-zeitung.de</a></span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br><span>-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----</span><br><span>Von: Xymon [<a href="mailto:xymon-bounces@xymon.com">mailto:xymon-bounces@xymon.com</a>] Im Auftrag von Eli via Xymon</span><br><span>Gesendet: Freitag, 23. Oktober 2015 03:53</span><br><span>An: <a href="mailto:xymon@xymon.com">xymon@xymon.com</a></span><br><span>Betreff: [Xymon] Xymon maintaienance</span><br><span></span><br><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>Xymon mailing list</span><br><span><a href="mailto:Xymon@xymon.com">Xymon@xymon.com</a></span><br><span><a href="http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon">http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon</a></span><br><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>Xymon mailing list</span><br><span><a href="mailto:Xymon@xymon.com">Xymon@xymon.com</a></span><br><span><a href="http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon">http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon</a></span><br><span>This communication is the property of CenturyLink and may contain confidential or privileged information. Unauthorized use of this communication is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this communication in error, please immediately notify the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the communication and any attachments.</span><br><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>Xymon mailing list</span><br><span><a href="mailto:Xymon@xymon.com">Xymon@xymon.com</a></span><br><span><a href="http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon">http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon</a></span><br></div></blockquote></body></html>