[hobbit] Re: Downtime Question

Dominique Frise dominique.frise at unil.ch
Thu Oct 9 07:46:39 CEST 2008


Patrick Nixon wrote:
> Does anyone have some insight into this?
> 
> From the documentation it appears that the syntax I have should work
> correctly, but it's not.
> 
> DOWNTIME=cam:60:0000:2400,cam:W:1930:0830
> 
> hobbitd  is giving the error message: Latest errormessages:
> Bad timespec (missing colon or no starttime): W
> 
> Thanks!
> --Pat
> 
> On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 11:38 AM, Patrick Nixon <pnixon at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Okay,
>>  I know this is going to be an easy answer, but I'm trying to setup a
>> multiple downtime window for one of my services, but I can't seem to
>> have it kick in.
>>
>>  two questions:
>> 1   If a service is already down, when you change bb-hosts for the
>> downtime window, will it turn red->blue?
>> 2   What, if anything, is wrong with this statement?
>>    DOWNTIME=cam:60:0000:2400,*:1930:0830
>>
>>  My goal is to ignore it from 730p to 830a daily and all day saturday and sunday
>>
>>  The info page shows: cam:60:0000:2400, All days:1930:0830 under the
>> planned downtime.
>>
>> Thanks!
>> --Pat
>>
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There seem to be something broken with the DOWNTIME setting (running 
4.2.0 with allinone-patch).

I reported similar issue long time ago:

http://www.hobbitmon.com/hobbiton/2006/12/msg00240.html
http://www.hswn.dk/hobbiton/2008/05/msg00042.html


Dominique



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