[hobbit] monitoring httpd 24x7 (almost)

[Dugan, Darin D [EIT]]

Hmm, well I assumed it had always been there, but perhaps it was added
later. I'm running a 4.3 snapshot from a couple months back. man
bb-hosts has this:

 

 

 
DOWNTIME=[columns:]day:starttime:endtime:cause[,day:starttime:endtime:ca
use]

              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.

 

              The timespecification consists of

 

              day: W means Mon-Fri ("weekdays"), * means all days, 0 ..
6 = Sunday .. Saturday.  Listing multiple days

              is possible, e.g. "60" is valid meaning "Saturday and
Sunday".

 

              starttime: Time to start showing errors, must be in
24-hour clock format as  HHMM  hours/minutes.   E.g.

              for 8 am enter "0800", for 9.30 pm enter "2130"

 

              endtime: Time to stop showing errors.

 

              If  necessary, multiple periods can be specified. E.g. to
monitor a site 24x7, except between noon and 1

              pm, use DOWNTIME=*:0000:1159,*:1300:2359

 

              The interval between starttime and endtime may cross
midnight, e.g. *:2330:0200 would be valid and  have

              the same effect as *:2330:2400,*:0000:0200.

 

              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  trig-

              gered  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.

 

From: Wood, Mike [mailto:Mike.Wood at kci1.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 10:54 AM
To: hobbit at hswn.dk
Subject: RE: [hobbit] monitoring httpd 24x7 (almost)

 

My man page only shows
DOWNTIME=day:starttime:endtime:cause[,day:starttime:endtime:cause].

It goes on to say that the syntax is the same as NKTIME.  NKTIME doesn't
seem to support a service either, but NK does.

Was there a patch to Hobbit that modified this behavior and/or man page?

 

________________________________

From: Dugan, Darin D [EIT] [mailto:dddugan at iastate.edu] 
Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 10:42 AM
To: hobbit at hswn.dk
Subject: RE: [hobbit] monitoring httpd 24x7 (almost)

 

Check the man page...DOWNTIME can specify specific columns instead of
the entire host.

Cheers.

 

From: Wood, Mike [mailto:Mike.Wood at kci1.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 8:30 AM
To: hobbit at hswn.dk
Subject: [hobbit] monitoring httpd 24x7 (almost)

 

Hi All,

I'd like to monitor "http://[hostname]:10003" 24x7, except for 10
minutes on Sunday morning.

However:

I can't use DOWNTIME in bb-hosts, because that puts the entire host out
of service.

I can't use hobbit-clients.cfg, because it doesn't support any tags that
affect the HTTP column.

As a work-around, I can use PROC in hobbit-clients.cfg, but that affects
the PROCS column instead.

Thoughts?

Or am I failing my documentation reading skills somewhere? J

Mike Wood

UNIX System Administrator

Kinetic Concepts Inc.

5751 NW Parkway

San Antonio, TX, 78249

 

E-mail:  mike.wood at kci1.com

Office:  (210) 255-6382

Mobile:  (210) 825-5134

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