[hobbit] Alerts on server reboot?

[Stewart]

Re-read my post and I wasn't clear.  This is the Hobbit server going
down. Not the client machines.

It seems that when the server starts back up after a reboot, it goes,
"My god!  I have not seen an update for all 4000+ hosts in over an hour!
  I should send out purple alerts so that the admin can look into this!"

So the issue is the duration of the Hobbit server downtime.   If it's
down too long, in its mind, it has not received an update in a very long
time, so it sends purple messages for everything it owns.

DOWNTIME won't work, because this is the Hobbit server going down.
I also can't disable the hobbit host tests because, well, my server is
down. :)

Stewart


Tod Hansmann wrote:
> Purple messages on what?  Connection alarms should only go red, maybe
> for a couple polling cycles.  Services, I'd imagine, would come back up
> with the server.
>
> Regardless, you can suppress alarms for a given host and/or service on
> that host with several ways.  The two that come to mind for me are:
>  - Use the DOWNTIME directive in bb-hosts (see the man-page)
>  - Use the web interface to disable the host tests for however long you
> need when you need to restart a server.
>
> The alarms will still be logged, but won't show up or flow up the chain
> to bb2.html or whatnot.
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> Tod Hansmann
> Network Engineer
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stewart [mailto:stl19847 at yahoo.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2007 8:45 AM
> To: hobbit at hswn.dk
> Subject: [hobbit] Alerts on server reboot?
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> Is there a way to suppress the flood of alerts we get on a server
> reboot?  If the machine is down for 10 minutes and comes back up, we get
> flooded with purple messages.
>
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