[hobbit] help with setting up pager rule

[Larry Barber]

You have the TIME filter backwards, it needs to be
W:0000:0800,W:1700:2400,06:0000:2400, the way you have it it will only pass
alerts on weekdays from 8:00 to 5:00.

Thanks,
Larry Barber

On 1/27/06, smith.js.8 at pg.com <smith.js.8 at pg.com> wrote:
>
> I'm having problems getting a pager rule to work. What I want is to get
> paged
> for any conn (connection) that is down more than 10 minutes, but not
> during
> "normal business hours" (ie, M-F 8a-5p).
>
> Here is what I have:
>
> HOST=%.*\.(na|internal)\.pg\.com SERVICE=conn TIME=W:0800:1700 DURATION>10
>     SCRIPT /usr/local/bin/skytel 800####### FORMAT=sms
>
> Here's what happens. I get paged during the middle of the day when a
> system goes
> down.
>
> If I run the rule through the "test" mode, then it says it fails on the
> duration
> rule. So if I remove the duration rule and test again, then it says it
> fails on
> the time rule.
>
> But, as I said, I'm getting pages in the middle of the day (when we're
> doing
> maintenance).
>
> Thoughts? Am I writing this rule correctly?
>
>
> Scott
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