[hobbit] Antwort: [hobbit] Antwort: Re: [hobbit] DOWNTIME for Non-Network tests
Dominique Frise
dominique.frise at unil.ch
Wed Sep 2 08:46:08 CEST 2009
DOWNTIME can be used for any test (local or network).
Here an example of setting for Oracle that we use:
DOWNTIME=orcl,orcl-chk,procs,msgs:*:0130:0230:Backups
"orcl" is a local check running on the client and "orcl-chk" is a remote
check -connecting to the listener- performed from the server.
Dominique
thorsten.erdmann at daimler.com wrote:
>
> 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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