[hobbit] Is there a way to "quietly" disable hosts that have NOTICE set?

[Francesco Duranti]

Directly from the man bb command :D



	 disable HOSTNAME.TESTNAME DURATION <additional text>
              Disables  a  specific  test  for  DURATION minutes. This
will cause the status of this test to be listed as
              "blue" on the BBDISPLAY server, and no alerts for this
host/test will be generated. If DURATION is given as
              a  number  followed by s/m/h/d, it is interpreted as being
in seconds/minutes/hours/days respectively.   To
              disable all tests for a host, use an asterisk "*" for
TESTNAME.

       enable HOSTNAME.TESTNAME
              Re-enables a test that had been disabled. 


So you can execute bb hobbitserver "disable dbservername.* 2h Backup
time" before shutting down the database and bb hobbitserver "enable
dbserver.*" just at the end.

Francesco


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Charles Jones [mailto:jonescr at cisco.com] 
> Sent: Monday, September 25, 2006 7:56 AM
> To: hobbit at hswn.dk
> Subject: [hobbit] Is there a way to "quietly" disable hosts 
> that have NOTICE set?
> 
> I have the NOTICE flag set for all of my production hosts - I 
> want pages to go out if someone disables or enables any of them.
> 
> However, when backups are done, the oracle databases are 
> brought down, which triggers an alert. If they are manually 
> disabled, the NOTICE message goes out which also wakes people 
> up for no reason.
> 
> If I use DOWNTIME in bb-hosts, then I have to specify a 
> window which is guaranteed to be longer than the possible 
> time it could take to backup the databases (which is a 
> dynamic thing which will surely be wrong from time to time). 
> So what ends up happening is for example, I would specify an 
> hour of DOWNTIME, but the backups sometimes only take 30 minutes. 
> That means there is a 30 minute window where a real alert 
> would be masked, which is unacceptable in a production environment.
> 
> I guess what I'm looking for, is a way that I can send a 
> commands to Hobbit via a shellscript (called from the db 
> backup script), that would put a host/services in maint mode 
> (disabled - blue dot), and NOT send a NOTICE page.
> 
> -Charles
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