[hobbit] delete queued alerts

[Josh Luthman]

When Ohio was torn apart by the storm a few weeks ago I did as Henrik just
suggested.  I let it boot normally, then went in and stopped sendmail.  I
dropped the mail spool and a few hours (or a day) later when customers
started to gain power I brought it back with a clean queue.  I had several
alerts but as they were all email I didn't much mind.

The alerts I had that were for our major backhauls go to my mobile via SMS.
Those can cause an issue and really the only way I can imagine getting
around this is to create route: for the hop previous to it.

One suggestion I would love to see in Hobbit is a summary email of alerts in
the case of a certain number of red hosts.

Josh Luthman
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On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 4:42 PM, Henrik Stoerner <henrik at hswn.dk> wrote:

> In <346972.30160.qm at web38606.mail.mud.yahoo.com> "jm54601 at yahoo.com" <
> jm54601 at yahoo.com> writes:
>
> >We had add an 'a-ha' moment the other day when our Hobbit server lost
> netwo=
> >rk connectivity, and once rebooted it blasted out basically every alert
> con=
> >figured.=A0 If this were to happen again, is there a way to silence or
> dele=
> >te queued alerts before rebooting?=0A=0AI'm also curious how this
> community=
> > handles a case like=A0that.=0A=0A=0A
>
> I suppose your alerts go out via e-mail ? In that case, the issue resolves
> to
> stopping your mailer daemon and clearing the mail queue of the pending
> alerts.
>
>
> Regards,
> Henrik
>
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