Antwort: [hobbit] Antwort: Re: [hobbit] DOWNTIME for Non-Network tests

[thorsten.erdmann at daimler.com]

I was able to test it now. Indeed the DOWNTIME tag has no effect to the 
database test. Do I have to interpret the DOWNTIME tag for myself or is 
there a possibility to "downtime" specific tests in hobbit itself.

> 
> >> can I somehow tell Hobbit to ignore bad test results in certain 
times, 
> >> like the DOWNTIME tag does for network tests?
> >> e.g. I do some Oracle database tests and shutdown the databases on 
> >> weekends for backup. I don't want this planned downtime to appear in 
> >> the Non-Green-Systems View and in the Availability reports.
> >
> > Maybe I can "missuse" the badTEST tag somehow?> If this is really 
> planned and regularly scheduled, then use the DOWNTIME 
> > tag.  If it can be variable, you can schedule downtime in advance with 

> > the enable/disable menu item.
> 
> It is really planned. But as I see it, the DOWNTIME tag is only 
> valid for the network test. But the network is up during this 
> period. So the system itself is green, but the oracle test is red 
> and is so propagated to the summary pages above.
> 
> But I cannot really test it, because I cannot shutdown my databases 
> at the current time. But we will see what happens tomorrow.
> 
> Thorsten
> 
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