[hobbit] DOWNTIME ALERTS

[Tim McCloskey]

Thanks, tried that on one host entry but got the same results, however it seems to make sense to quote the whole field.

I've just noticed some odd events in the hobbitd.log that seem point to improper quoting.
2008-06-05 10:17:28 Bad timespec (missing colon or wrong weekdays): 1800:0730:Nightly Reboot
Where bb-hosts contains DOWNTIME=*:1800:0730:"Nightly Reboot"
Yet it does not report this for the entry I cited below:
ipaddr someserver # DOWNTIME=*:2200:0730:"Nightly Reboot"

I am going to change _all_ of the DOWNTIME entries to quote the whole string and see what happens.

Thanks again.

Tim



Stuffle, David (Corporate) wrote:
> Try it like this:
> 
> ipaddr someserver # "DOWNTIME=*:2200:0730:Nightly Reboot"
> 
> Quoting the entire DOWNTIME tag is needed when specifying a reason. (at
> least it works for me)
> 
> 
> D. Stuffle
>  
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tim McCloskey [mailto:devzero at cox.net] 
> Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2008 11:50 AM
> To: hobbit at hswn.dk
> Subject: [hobbit] DOWNTIME ALERTS
> 
> Hello,
> 
> First thank you for the fantastic tool which I have been using for quite
> some time now.
> 
> I tried using DOWNTIME in bb-hosts instead of using TIME in
> hobbit-alerts to ignore alerting on some nightly reboots and inform
> operators via the info page what is going on.
> 
> DOWNTIME really appears to be a better approach, if I could make it work
> .
> 
> Though I've read some of the posts and documentation I think my
> configuration (below) is perhaps wrong as alerts are sent during the
> downtime window. Do I need to specify a service, or am I simply
> misunderstanding the concept?
> 
> Details below.
> 
> bb-hosts:
> ipaddr someserver # DOWNTIME=*:2200:0730:"Nightly Reboot"
> 
> 
> hobbit-alerts.cfg:
> HOST=* SERVICE=conn
> SCRIPT page-primary.sh FORMAT=sms
> REPEAT=30 RECOVERED
> SCRIPT page-secondary.sh DURATION>60
> FORMAT=sms REPEAT=60
> ## also have the following to just spew email on everything.
> HOST=*
> SCRIPT mail-primary.sh FORMAT=sms
> COLOR=red DURATION>6 REPEAT=60
> SCRIPT mail-secondary.sh FORMAT=sms
> COLOR=red DURATION>60 REPEAT=60
> 
> 
> page-primary.sh:
> /bin/mail -s "$BBSVCNAME $BBHOSTNAME $MACHIP"
> some-mail-addr at some-place.tld < /dev/null
> 
> 
> 
> 
> notifications.log:
> Wed Jun 4 23:04:54 2008 someserver.conn (ipaddr) FORMAT=sms 1212645894
> 500 Wed Jun 4 23:04:54 2008 someserver.conn (ipaddr) DURATION>60
> 1212645894 500 Wed Jun 4 23:06:16 2008 someserver.conn (ipaddr)
> FORMAT=sms 1212645976 500 82
> 
> 
> 
> 
>  From "info" page:
> Planned downtime: All days:2200:0730:Nightly Reboot Network tests use:
> Hostname Checked with ping: Yes
> 
> 
> Thanks and Regards,
> 
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