[hobbit] alert storm / intelligent extra mailscript

[Buchan Milne]

On Friday 17 April 2009 11:16:17 Martin Flemming wrote:
> Hi !
>
> I've got an problem with my colleagues and the alert-storm
> if a hole batchfarm will be rebooted for kernel-upgrade etc.
>   .. and the person, who did it, doesn't deactivate them or make an
> Acknowledge-Downtime, don't ask me why ... he hate web-guis, want to make
> only one command on the console ...
>
> I know, i asked something similiar before
> http://www.hswn.dk/hobbiton/2009/01/msg00398.html
> Re: [hobbit] remote/commandline Acknowledge Alerts

IMHO, planned changes should be preceded by disabling the tests that would be 
affected, which can easily be done with a command-line ...