[hobbit] Can't get DOWNTIME= to work

[Ryan Novosielski]

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Thank you!

I would never have figured that out (without reading the source code).
The documentation would lead you to believe, though it is an unlikely
situation, that you can NOT use columns in more than one of the comma
separated downtime events and I don't think the documentation says at
all that one is dependent on the other.

I suppose that I have it working now -- I suppose we shall see.

Dugan, Darin D [EIT] wrote:
> If you want to use a column or a cause you must use both. Three or five parameters is deterministic, but presently the code doesn't try to figure out which you're supplying (column or cause) if you provide only four parameters. The old documentation was wrong.
> 
> So just use * for column if you want to provide a cause, or provide some kind of cause if you want to provide a column. I think it's good practice to always provide a cause...
>  
> I submitted a patch to clarify the documentation a while back that I believe was committed, but there hasn't been a release since then.
> 
> Cheers.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ryan Novosielski [mailto:novosirj at umdnj.edu] 
> Sent: Monday, March 22, 2010 11:48 PM
> To: hobbit at hswn.dk
> Subject: [hobbit] Can't get DOWNTIME= to work
> 
> I'm using Xymon 4.2.3.
> 
> Unfortunately, the examples in the documentation don't actually cover the most complicated case, where you define columns, have more than one time period, and define a reason for the downtime.
> 
> Here's what I have:
> 
> "DOWNTIME=http:*:0530:0535:BANRECT Scheduled Instance Restart,*:2030:2035:WFWSAPP Scheduled Instance Restart"
> 
> Looks good to me, according to these rules:
> 
> DOWNTIME=[columns:]day:starttime:endtime:cause[,day:starttime:endtime:cause]
> 
> Can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong? I get this error in the "hobbitd" test on my display machine:
> 
> Invalid timespec - expected 4 digits, got: 'WFWSAPP Scheduled I'
> 
> Any help would be most appreciated. Looks like there might be a mistake in the manual (or is there a typo there that I don't see?).
> 

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