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

[Kauffman, Tom]

Does your oracle test run on the same box?

We're running a hacked version of the 'roracle' script from deadcat; one
of the hacks is to report 'blue' if the backup is running. And our
backup script sets a specific lockfile at the start, removing it at the
end. And we monitor the lockfile existence, to alert on a backup running
too long.

Maybe this would be a better approach? Possible send 'clear' instead of
'blue', if the 'blue' triggers the notice?

Tom Kauffman
NIBCO, Inc

-----Original Message-----
From: Charles Jones [mailto:jonescr at cisco.com] 
Sent: Monday, September 25, 2006 1:56 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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