Re: [xymon] Planned downtime

[Darryl Wisneski <dkw (at) trilegiant.com>]

On Wed, Jan 05, 2011 at 09:14:48AM -0500, Ralph Mitchell wrote:
> 
>    On the other hand, you could use cron to schedule disablement of
>    services:
> 
>       0 0 * * * /home/xymon/server/bin/bb localhost "disable
>    server,domain,org.TEST 90 scheduled downtime"

We have used all three mentioned methods plus one more.

1.) cron for advanced disabling.

the scripts use the bb command.

/home/xymon/server/bin/bb localhost "disable server.* 90 bla_mesg"

# 1:00am to 7:am (420 min)
0 1 13 2 * /var/hobbit/maintenance-script-crow.sh 420
0 1 15 5 * /var/hobbit/maintenance-script-crow.sh 420
#
# 4:00am to 7:00am = (180 min)
0 4 9 1 * /var/hobbit/maintenance-script-crow.sh 180
0 4 6 2 * /var/hobbit/maintenance-script-crow.sh 180
0 4 13 3 * /var/hobbit/maintenance-script-crow.sh 180
0 4 3 4 * /var/hobbit/maintenance-script-crow.sh 180
#
# 12:01am to 3:00am (180 min)
1 0 23 1 * /var/hobbit/maintenance-script-crow.sh 180
1 0 27 2 * /var/hobbit/maintenance-script-crow.sh 180
1 0 20 3 * /var/hobbit/maintenance-script-crow.sh 180
1 0 17 4 * /var/hobbit/maintenance-script-crow.sh 180
1 0 22 5 * /var/hobbit/maintenance-script-crow.sh 180
1 0 19 6 * /var/hobbit/maintenance-script-crow.sh 180
1 0 17 7 * /var/hobbit/maintenance-script-crow.sh 180
1 0 21 8 * /var/hobbit/maintenance-script-crow.sh 180
1 0 18 9 * /var/hobbit/maintenance-script-crow.sh 180
1 0 18 10 * /var/hobbit/maintenance-script-crow.sh 180
1 0 29 11 * /var/hobbit/maintenance-script-crow.sh 180
1 0 18 12 * /var/hobbit/maintenance-script-crow.sh 180
# end

2.) DOWNTIME in bb-hosts used to work for us nicely until our app
guys went nuts and having irregurlar downtimes (then we had to use
option #1).   We still use this for most devel/staging machines.

3.) hobbit-enadis.sh

4.) Move the hobbit-alerts.cg file out of the way and/or just stopped
the hobbit server daemon processes.  Obviously this is a silly way
to do it, but it works too. This will skew your hobbit reporting.

-dkw



> 
>    would disable the TEST service on [1]server.domain.org for 90 minutes,
>    starting at midnight every night.  Note that the  hostname elements are
>    comma-separated, because the dot marks the beginning of the
>    test/service column name.  That's a legacy of the old BB days...
> 
>    See the "XYMON MESSAGE SYNTAX" section in the bb.1 man page for full
>    details.
> 
>    Ralph Mitchell
> 
>    On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 8:30 AM, Ryan Novosielski
>    <[2]novosirj (at) umdnj.edu> wrote:
> 
>      With that said, DOWNTIME cannot do advanced scheduling which is I
>      believe one of the very few shortcomings of Xymon. I have a lot of
>      once-a-month maintenance. With Xymon, I believe the maximum time you
>      can do between is weekly.
> 
>    -- Sent from my Palm Pre
>      _______________________________________________________________
> 
>    On Jan 5, 2011 7:49, Johan Sjöberg
>    <[3]johan.sjoberg (at) deltamanagement.se> wrote:
> 
>    You can use enable/disable to schedule future disables of hosts and
>    tests.
> 
>    You can also use the DOWNTIME setting in bb-hosts if it is a recurring
>    downtime. See the manual.
> 
> 
>    /Johan
> 
> 
>    From: Leonardo Bozi [mailto:[4]leobozi (at) yahoo.com]
>    Sent: den 5 januari 2011 13:37
>    To: [5]xymon (at) xymon.com
>    Subject: [xymon] Planned downtime
> 
> 
>    Is there a manner to configure on Xymon 4.2.3 a planned downtime?
> 
>    And any news about Xymon 4.3.0 stable?
>    Thanks in advance.
> 
>    Leonardo Bozi
>    ______________________________________________
>    [6]leobozi (at) yahoo.com
> 
> References
> 
>    1. http://server.domain.org/
>    2. mailto:novosirj (at) umdnj.edu
>    3. mailto:johan.sjoberg (at) deltamanagement.se
>    4. mailto:leobozi (at) yahoo.com
>    5. mailto:xymon (at) xymon.com
>    6. mailto:leobozi (at) yahoo.com