Help with DOWNTIME tag

[Terry Barnes]

Just took the plunge to HOBBIT today and overall it is working very
nice. Big Brother has been great - this is going to be a winner!

Reading through the bb-hosts manpage i discovered the DOWNTIME tag.
This is great by its description. I have been preventing alerts at
specified times of the day, but unfortunately things still go red,
though no alerts go out.  If I understand DOWNTIME correctly, it should
allow failed tests during this downtime window to result in a blue
status instead of red. I added it to bb-hosts on a host specific line
similar to the following.

1.2.3.4 myhost.com # DOWNTIME=*:2259:0531test1 test2 test3 test4
test...

I anxiously awaited the moment several processes stopped for dayend
backups and processing, but the staus went red as usual.

Am i coding this wrong or not understnding its implementation
correctly?

Thanks

Terry Barnes
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