[hobbit] DOWNTIME for disk

[Asif Iqbal]

David,

Wow! that feature is already available? I run man bb-hosts and I did not see
the `column' argument for DOWTIME parameter. Are you running a new beta
release or something?

On 4/15/07, Stuffle, David (Corporate) <David.Stuffle at adesa.com> wrote:
>
>
> > Is it possible to define DOWNTIME just for a service like `disk' instead
> of the all services of a host
>
> From the man pages.  I think you have to specify a cause if you specify a
> column.
>
>
> DOWNTIME=[columns:]day:starttime:endtime:cause[,day:starttime:endtime:cause]
> This tag can be used to ignore failed checks during specific times of the
> day - e.g. if you run services that are only monitored e.g. Mon-Fri
> 8am-5pm, or you always reboot a server every Monday between 5 and 6 pm.
>
> What happens is that if a test fails during the specified time, it is
> reported with status BLUE instead of yellow or red. Thus you can still see
> when the service was unavailable, but alarms will not be triggered and the
> downtime is not counted in the availability calculations generated by the
> Hobbit reports.
>
> The "columns" setting is optional - it may be a comma-separated list of
> status columns in which case the DOWNTIME setting only applies to these
> columns.
>
> The "cause" string (optional) is a text that will be displayed on the
> status web page to explain thy the system is down.
>
> The syntax for DOWNTIME is the same as the one used by the NKTIME
> parameter.
>
>
> David
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