[hobbit] resend: 2 questions

[rdeal]

You could page on yellow at 80F and then again at red when the room comes to
100F...

Same with the ups, yellow is 30 minutes left on UPS, red is 5 minutes
left...
You wouldn't want to see any of these on anything other than green.




> From: "McDonald, Dan" <Dan.McDonald at austinenergy.com>
> Reply-To: <hobbit at hswn.dk>
> Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 07:15:50 -0500
> To: <hobbit at hswn.dk>
> Subject: Re: [hobbit] resend: 2 questions
> 
> On Wed, 2008-07-23 at 06:22 -0400, michael nemeth wrote:
>> Yes you're right IT does hit the fan then.
>> 
>> Gary Baluha wrote:
>>> I say the color should be brown, then...
> 
> Brown and orange are the same hue, just different intensities :-)
> 
> But I would also like a "hey it's really, really bad" notification.  We
> page when there is 30 minutes left on a UPS.  I'd like to page again
> when there is 5 minutes left (and it's not always 25 minutes later...)
> 
> Another instance is that we page when it is over 80 degrees F in a comm
> room.  I'd like to page again when it gets to 100...
> 
> I know I could write additional tests and have columns for both upsmin
> and upsfailimminent, but a third threshold would be easier to
> maintain...
> 
>>> 
>>> On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 11:57 AM, Jeff Newman
>>> <jeffnewman75 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>         Right. I think the concept is
>>>         
>>>         Level 1: "warning everyone, something bad could happen, or
>>>         might not,
>>>         may want to look"
>>>                          - Yellow
>>>         Level 2: "Hey look, it was just a warning before, but now,
>>>         it's bad
>>>         and service might
>>>                      be interrupted unless you take action, this is
>>>         your last
>>>         chance buddy!"
>>>                          - Red
>>>         Level 3: "I've told you repeatedly, and now look whats
>>>         happened! You've reached
>>>                     super critical orange level! That means within
>>>         minutes
>>>         your service will be dead.
>>>                     run for the hills, the sky is falling, the phone
>>>         is about
>>>         to ring non-stop"
>>>                          - Orange
>>>         
>>>         i think 3 levels makes sense for some specific applications.
>>>         
> 
>> 
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