[hobbit] Alerts on server reboot?

[Stewart]

so, is there nothing I can do about this?  I thought I read at one point
that there was a way to tell the server, "Don't send any alerts within
10 minutes of server startup", or something like that.

Stewart


Charles Jones wrote:
> Last time I faced this scenario, before I started the Hobbit server I
> edited hobbit-alerts.cfg and temporarily commented out the MAIL lines :)
> Of course this doesn't help you if you have hobbit set to automatically
> start when the server boots. :)
>
> -Charles
>
> Stewart wrote:
>> 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?
>>>
>>> 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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