[hobbit] Excluding Hosts from Paging at certain times

[ZanDAhaR]

Just something else I forgot to mention, we want to send everything to email
such as msgs disk http conn etc, but not send disk, cpu, msgs to the pager
email address

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "ZanDAhaR" <allan at zandahar.net>
To: <hobbit at hswn.dk>
Sent: Friday, March 11, 2005 11:35 AM
Subject: [hobbit] Excluding Hosts from Paging at certain times


> Hi there,
>
> Not sure if this is the right place to be sending this as I've only just
> subscribed and the emails dont quite say exactly where to email but here
> goes.
>
> We have just upgraded from bb after 5 years or so to hobbit and we're not
> looking back. We have some servers that have to be rebooted on a daily
basis
> due to some of the poorly written software (not by us) that runs on them.
I
> have tred using the DOWNTIME= option on the BB hosts but it only seems to
> ignore the net tests like http, conn etc. The server still has the bb
client
> installed on it so when the server comes back up the bb client starts
before
> some of the monitored services start and therefore marks them red and we
get
> paged on them.
>
> Given our worldwide customer base we still want to know about the issues
> 24x7 except for the 10 mins or so when it reboots. BB used to have the
> option of putting in something like !host:time:email and it wouldnt page
at
> that particular time for that hosts. Just wondering if someone can suggest
> the best way to work around this.
>
> We have one alert that goes out via email and then to sortof a mailing
list,
> and then another line that does email-to-pager. I was thinking something
> along the lines of what I have below although I am not sure about the TIME
> statement if you can have comma separated values, ,if you can pass
midnight
> such as TIME=*:0910:0900
>
> There is only 4 hosts currently that reboot, one at midnight, two at 9am,
> one at 8:30am
>
> If someone could possible give me a hand it and point me in the right
> direction it would be greatly appreciated
>
> Cheers
>
> Allan
>
> #extract of hobbit-alerts.cfg
>
> $NPSERV=cpu,disk,msgs
>
> HOST=host1.domain.com
>     MAIL emailalret at domain.com COLOR=red,purple REPEAT=15 RECOVERED
> TIME=*:0010:0000
>     MAIL email at pageraddress.com COLOR=red,purple REPEAT=15 FORMAT=SMS
> EXSERVICE=$NPSERV TIME=*:0010:0000 STOP
>
> HOST=host2.domain.com
>     MAIL emailalret at domain.com COLOR=red,purple REPEAT=15 RECOVERED
> TIME=*:0000:0900,*:0910:0000
>     MAIL email at pageraddress.com COLOR=red,purple REPEAT=15 FORMAT=SMS
> EXSERVICE=$NPSERV TIME=*:0000:0900,*:0910:0000 STOP
>
> HOST=*
>     MAIL emailalret at domain.com REPEAT=15 COLOR=red,purple RECOVERED
>     MAIL email at pageraddress.com FORMAT=SMS REPEAT=15 COLOR=red,purple
> EXSERVICE=$NPSERV
>
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