[Xymon] downtime syntax revisited

Henrik Størner henrik at hswn.dk
Mon Mar 14 18:28:24 CET 2011


Tim McCloskey wrote:

> Betsy provides an example of downtime with only three fields, which appear to be day, start time, end time.
>
>  From the docs: DOWNTIME=[columns:]day:starttime:endtime:cause[,day:starttime:endtime:cause]
>
>  From my working config (4.2.0): "DOWNTIME=*:*:2200:0730:Nightly Reboot"

The 4.2.x manpage is wrong. It's been corrected in 4.3.0, there are two 
possible syntaxes:

DOWNTIME=day:starttime:endtime[,day:starttime:endtime]
DOWNTIME=columns:day:starttime:endtime:cause[,columns:day:starttime:endtime:cause]

So either 3 columns, or 5. Not 4.


Regards,
Henrik



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