RE: [hobbit] Recommendation on setting regular maintenance exclusion for reporting

["Jason Hand" <jason (at) hands4christ.org>]

That worked like a charm.  I had not used that spec before but that was
exactly what I was looking for.

Thanks for the suggestion.

-Jason 

-----Original Message-----
From: Alan Sparks [mailto:asparks (at) doublesparks.net] 
Sent: Friday, November 21, 2008 7:28 PM
To: hobbit (at) hswn.dk
Subject: Re: [hobbit] Recommendation on setting regular maintenance
exclusion for reporting

Can't you just use the DOWNTIME specification in bb-hosts for those clients?
-Alan

Jason Hand wrote:
> These are a variety of monitored entities including windows machines 
> and web sites.
>
> How would that work as you describe?  Do I just substitute the days, 
> "yourhobbitserver" with the name or localhost, "yourhobbitclient" with 
> the hostname of the client to disable, "60" with number of minutes to 
> disable it, and then the "Scheduled reboot" would be the cause?
>
> And this cron job would run on the Hobbit server right?
>
> Thanks ,
> Jason
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ulric Eriksson [mailto:ulric (at) siag.nu]
> Sent: Friday, November 21, 2008 6:58 PM
> To: hobbit (at) hswn.dk
> Subject: Re: [hobbit] Recommendation on setting regular maintenance 
> exclusion for reporting
>
>
>
> On Fri, 21 Nov 2008, Jason Hand wrote:
>
>   
>> I am just looking for what you think is the best way to exclude a few 
>> clients from reporting problems during regular 3-time a week 
>> maintenance periods where these are naturally going to be off or not
>>     
> reporting.
>   
>> How would I set that in the best way?
>>     
>
> Set up a cron job to disable them at those times.
>
> 0 1 * * mon,wed,fri /home/hobbit/server/bin/bb yourhobbitserver 
> "disable yourhobbitclient 60 Scheduled reboot"
>
>
> Ulric
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