[hobbit] Alerts on server reboot?

[Henrik Stoerner]

On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 08:59:08PM -0400, Stewart wrote:
> >>It seems that when the server starts back up after a reboot, it goes,
> >>"My god!  I have not seen an update for all 4000+ hosts in over an hour!
> >> I should send out purple alerts so that the admin can look into this!"
> >>
> >>So the issue is the duration of the Hobbit server downtime.   If it's
> >>down too long, in its mind, it has not received an update in a very long
> >>time, so it sends purple messages for everything it owns.
> 
> so, is there nothing I can do about this?  I thought I read at one point
> that there was a way to tell the server, "Don't send any alerts within
> 10 minutes of server startup", or something like that.

It's built into Hobbit that it won't change a status to purple for the
first 10 minutes after it starts up. That should give everything time to
refresh before the purple storm hits.

So what you're saying is that this doesn't work - I'll have to try and
re-create this here.


Regards,
Henrik