[hobbit] hobbit_alerts.cfg IGNORE TIME

[Tim McCloskey]

DOWNTIME is want you want, the client is automagically placed into maintenance mode (blue) for the time period 
specified.  Other users of the hobbit system can see the downtime configuration via a web browser (ie. if you've got a 
noc team watching the display).  Ignore is not needed in this configuration, only the hosts entry.

Example:

 From the hosts file:
1.1.1.1 servername                   # "DOWNTIME=*:*:2200:0730:Nightly Reboot"

Displayed on the 'info' page for the host above.
Planned downtime:	All days:*:2200:0730:Nightly Reboot


This works well for us, using hobbit-4.2.0.


Good luck,


Tim



Brand, Thomas R. wrote:
> #man hobbit-clients
> TIME=timespecification  Rule  matching an alert by the time-of-day. This
> is specified as the DOWNTIME timespecification in the bb-hosts file.
> 
> #man bb-hosts
> /DOWNTIME
> The syntax for DOWNTIME is the same as the one used by the NKTIME
> parameter.
> 
> /NKTIME
> NKTIME=day:starttime:endtime[,day:starttime:endtime]
> day-of-week: 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"
> 
> 
> Days are 0-6, Sunday thru Saturday....
> 
> :)
> 
> Cheers
> Tom
> 
> Tom Brand
> Disclaimer:  1) all opinions are my own, 2) I may be completely wrong,
> 3) my advice is worth at least as much as what you are paying for it, or
> your money cheerfully refunded.Think before you print... 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lee Imber [mailto:ljimber at gmail.com] 
> Sent: Tuesday, December 29, 2009 4:44 PM
> To: hobbit at hswn.dk
> Subject: [hobbit] hobbit_alerts.cfg IGNORE TIME
> 
> Greetings all,
> 
> I have been trying to figure this out and I think I am missing something
> real obvious.
> 
> I am trying to ignore an event when a series of servers do some backups
> and the http test gets triggered for a second Sunday Morning at 3:35AM
> or 0835UTC.
> 
> Here is the rule in hobbit-alerts.cfg
> 
> HOST=S1,S2,S3,S4 COLOR=red SERVICE=http
>         IGNORE HOST=S1,S2,S3,S4 SERVICE=http TIME=7:0830:0845
> 
> But I get still get paged.
> 
> Here is what I get when I run:
> 
> ./bin/bbcmd hobbitd_alert --test S1 http
> 
> 00052836 2009-12-29 18:02:45 Matching host:service:page 'S1:http:'
> against rule line 81
> 2009-12-29 18:02:45 Bad timespec (missing colon or wrong weekdays):
> 7:0830:0845
> 00052836 2009-12-29 18:02:45 Failed 'IGNORE HOST=S1,S2,S3,S4
> SERVICE=http TIME=7:0830:0845' (time criteria)
> 
> In the hobbit manual there is an example that shows a similar rule set
> for Thursday using day 4:0000:0000 so I believe Sunday should be day 7?
> If I change the day to 6 I don't get that error in the --test output.
> 
> Thanks and HNY!
> 
> I have been trying to figure this out and I think I am missing something
> real obvious.
> 
> I am trying to ignore an event when a series of servers do some backups
> and the http test gets triggered for a second Sunday Morning at 3:35AM
> or 0835UTC.
> 
> Here is the rule in hobbit-alerts.cfg
> 
> HOST=S1,S2,S3,S4 COLOR=red SERVICE=http
>         IGNORE HOST=S1,S2,S3,S4 SERVICE=http TIME=7:0830:0845
> 
> But I get still get paged.
> 
> Here is what I get when I run:
> 
> ./bin/bbcmd hobbitd_alert --test S1 http
> 
> 00052836 2009-12-29 18:02:45 Matching host:service:page 'S1:http:'
> against rule line 81
> 2009-12-29 18:02:45 Bad timespec (missing colon or wrong weekdays):
> 7:0830:0845
> 00052836 2009-12-29 18:02:45 Failed 'IGNORE HOST=S1,S2,S3,S4
> SERVICE=http TIME=7:0830:0845' (time criteria)
> 
> In the hobbit manual there is an example that shows a similar rule set
> for Thursday using day 4:0000:0000 so I believe Sunday should be day 7?
> If I change the day to 6 I don't get that error in the --test output.
> 
> Thanks and HNY!
> 
> Lee J. Imber
> Systems Engineer
> Glance Networks
> 1167 Massachusetts Ave.
> Arlington, MA USA 02476
> www.glance.net
> lee at glance.net
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