[hobbit] restricted alerts

[Henrik Stoerner]

On Tue, Jul 05, 2005 at 05:44:20PM -0400, Sue Bauer-Lee wrote:
> 
> We have some application processes that run at regular intervals or
> prescribed times every day that cause certain client resource services
> to alert such as cpu, procs, memory. These service hits are not critical
> issues during this prescribed time period, but might be any other time of
> the day. Other examples might include 100% cpu utilization during a database
> backup or a heavy batch process.
> 
> Is there a way to define the equivalent of the DOWNTIME directive for
> an individual server (cpu, procs) instead of applying it to ALL services?

Not currently. There's the DOWNTIME setting, but as you say it works
on all tests for that host. You're not the first to request a more 
fine-grained setting, so it is on my list of things to do.

> If so, is this a server or client side configuration (bb-hosts or BB client)?

When I implement it, it will be a server-side setting. I like to keep
the client setup really simple.


Regards,
Henrik