[Xymon] Modifying scheduled disable/enable

[Mike Burger]

> Yes, this works. I assumed the original poster didn't want the tedium of
> editing them all in the GUI all over again, but I realized he didn't say
> that necessarily. Don't forget, if that is what you want, you can at least
> script this on the command line using the xymon command (which can use
> wildcards too, if your servers happen to be named that way).
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: me at tdiehl.org [mailto:me at tdiehl.org]
> Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2013 11:22 AM
> To: Mike Burger <mburger at bubbanfriends.org>
> Cc: xymon at xymon.com <xymon at xymon.com>
> Subject: Re: [Xymon] Modifying scheduled disable/enable
>
> Hi Mike,
>
> On Thu, 31 Oct 2013, Mike Burger wrote:
>
>> We have maintenance scheduled for 14 servers in our environment this
>> Saturday night. Knowing that the systems could be rebooted, etc, anytime
>> between 9PM and 1AM, I've prescheduled these servers to be "disabled"
>> from
>> 2059 on Saturday night thru 0101 on Sunday morning.
>>
>> I'm now being given a directive to have these systems disabled from 1959
>> to 0101.
>>
>> I'd like to be able to modify the existing schedule, without having to
>> remove and recreate them. As the GUI doesn't provide this option (only
>> an
>> option to cancel), I'm hoping that I can find a file wherein I can
>> modify
>> the schedule.
>
> Unless I am missing something it is as simple going into the gui and
> disabling
> them again with the correct schedule. I have done that many times. Last
> change
> wins.

That's correct. As there's currently no facility to edit the schedules via
the GUI (perhaps I should submit that as a feature request), I was hoping
to find a file where I could modify the (Unix) start time and duration (as
that's how they appear to be stored, when I look at them in the xymond.chk
file).