DOWNTIME and IGNORE (was Re: [hobbit] Command-line scheduled disable)

[Charles Jones <jonescr (at) cisco.com>]

Henrik,

Speaking of this, I'm using the DOWNTIME feature in bb-hosts to schedule 
certain hosts to be in maint mode during certain times. One problem 
though is there is no way to put a reason so that when people click on 
it in the GUI they can see that it is a scheduled disable.  Also 
DOWNTIME disabled the entire host, it would be nice to be able to 
specify by service. What would be really cool would be:

DOWNTIME=service:day:startime:endtime:reason

Then you could have a host with for example:

somehost.com 1.2.3.4 # ssh cpu disk msgs 
DOWNTIME=http,msgs:*:0600:0800:"Scheduled Apache Maintenance"

Currently we can "sort of" get this functionality with the IGNORE 
option, but when using IGNORE although alerts are not sent out, the 
host/service still turns red on the display which might worry someone 
looking at it (Maybe IGNORE should be called NOALERT)

Just some ideas :-)

-Charles

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:henrik (at) hswn.dk] 
> Sent: Friday, November 25, 2005 12:34 AM
> To: hobbit (at) hswn.dk
> Subject: Re: [hobbit] Command-line scheduled disable
>  
>
> There's a generic "schedule" command in the Hobbit protocol to do that.
> You can put a "schedule TIMESTAMP" in front of any command and Hobbit will execute that command at the requested time. TIMESTAMP is a Unix epoch time (seconds since Jan 1 1970). So your command would be:
>
> STARTTIME=`date +%s --date="$START_OF_DISABLE"` $BB $BBDISP "schedule $STARTTIME disable $MACHINE.$TEST $DURATION"
>
> That is in fact how the scheduled enable/disable works when you use it via the Web GUI.
>