Re: [hobbit] Faulty downtime

[Martha McConaghy <URMM (at) VM.MARIST.EDU>]

Thanks for the advice.  Those issues don't seem to apply here.  The
definition is pretty straight forward:

10.10.1.155 formfusion # conn nopropred:msgs http://formfusion.ad.marist.edu
       downtime=*:0050:0115:"Regular service restart"

The history should show it going blue from 00:50 to 01:15 each night, but
it doesn't.  Alerts periodically get generated too.

I did check it with hobbitd_alert as you suggested.  Without the time option,
it shows a match.  When I use the time option, i.e. --time 1245373200
there is no match.  That suggests to me that we should never get an alert
during that time.  Yet we do, 2 or 3 times a week.  Nearly always at 1:05.


Martha



On Thu, 18 Jun 2009 17:25:47 +0200 Dominique Frise said:
>Martha McConaghy wrote:
>> We're running the 4.3.0.0-beta2 level of Xymon, but saw this problem with
>> the previous beta level too.  The downtime option in bb-hosts does not seem
>> to work for servers that are running a Xymon client.  No matter how you set
>> it (i.e. what days or times), the tests never go blue.  It does show up as
>> planned downtime when you display the "Info" about the server, but it never
>> actually happens.  (Consequently, alerts are generated during the outage
>> time.)
>>
>> The downtime option works fine for servers that are not running a client,
>> though.
>>
>> Has anyone else seen this?  I suspect this is a bug.  Any ideas how to
>> work around it?
>>
>> Martha McConaghy
>> Marist College IT
>>
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>
> From our experience there are two issues with DOWNTIME
>
>1) The doc. in bb-hosts(5) should be:
>
>DOWNTIME=[columns:]day:starttime:endtime:cause[,[columns:]day:starttime:endtime
>
>
>2) The info column does not reflect a proper DOWNTIME configuration.
>
>Example:
>A valid and working configuration like
>"DOWNTIME=ldap:1:0729:0734:Restart" will be shown as "Planned downtime:
>ldap:1:0729:0734:Restart" on the info page (the 1 is not decoded as Monday).
>
>See also http://www.hswn.dk/hobbiton/2009/04/msg00301.html
>
>
>You can check your DOWNTIME settings with hobbitd_alert(8) --test HOST
>SERVICE [options]
>
>
>Dominique
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