RE: [hobbit] DOWNTIME not working

["T.J. Yang" <tj_yang (at) hotmail.com>]

I had similar issue of not knowing the alerting triggering process, 

Please look though following FAQ and look for example of alerting debuging example.

 

"bin/hobbitd_alert --debug --test t-rh9.mywork.com PROC "

 

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/System_Monitoring_with_Xymon/Other_Docs/FAQ#Q._How_do_I_configure_.22GROUP.22_alerts_.3F

T.J. Yang


 
> To: hobbit (at) hswn.dk
> From: DKDeckert (at) Hormel.com
> Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2009 13:52:33 -0500
> Subject: [hobbit] DOWNTIME not working
> 
> 
> Hellow fellow xymon users,
> 
> 
> 
> I am stuck. I have a custom test on a host that only runs from 7am to
> 11am. The rest of the time it does not run. I dont want it to show up
> purple just blue.
> 
> I will put exactly what my bb-hosts file shows
> 
> 
> 0.0.0.0. Pro015 #NOCOLUMNS:cpu ftp ssh
> DOWNTIME=rouge_detector:*:1100:0700
> 
> i tried this and it should work
> 
> I've also tried
> 
> 0.0.0.0. Pro015 #NOCOLUMNS:cpu ftp ssh
> "DOWNTIME=rouge_detector:*:1100:0700"
> 0.0.0.0. Pro015 #NOCOLUMNS:cpu ftp ssh "DOWNTIME=
> [rouge_detector:]*:1100:0700"
> 0.0.0.0. Pro015 #NOCOLUMNS:cpu ftp ssh DOWNTIME=
> [rouge_detector:]*:1100:0700
> 0.0.0.0. Pro015 #NOCOLUMNS:cpu ftp ssh SLA=*:1100:0700
> 
> 
> I dont know why the "rouge_detector" test will not go blue. I just dont
> want it to show up purple from 11am till 7am the next day...
> 
> 
> any ideas...Is this even the correct format ...
> 
> In bb-hosts man pages it says
> 
> DOWNTIME=[columns:]day:starttime:endtime:cause
> [,day:starttime:endtime:cause]
> 
> thanks guys....you guys save my job :D
> 
> 
> 
> 
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