[hobbit] Weird Alerting behavior...bug or expected??

Trent Melcher trent.melcher at sitel.com
Fri Sep 28 18:14:25 CEST 2007


On Fri, 2007-09-28 at 11:08 -0400, Kauffman, Tom wrote:
> IIRC there have been problems with crossing over midnight, so you may
> want to split the second rule to TIME=W:1700:2359 and TIME=W:0000:0800
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> (and I may be remembering from the Big Brother days . . .)

Yes Big Brother did have this issue,  Henrik fixed this with hobbit.

Trent
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> Tom
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> ______________________________________________________________________
> From: Eric Meddaugh [mailto:etmsys at rit.edu] 
> Sent: Friday, September 28, 2007 8:14 AM
> To: hobbit at hswn.dk
> Subject: RE: [hobbit] Weird Alerting behavior...bug or expected??
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> Just checking to see again if anyone has experienced this
> issue/problem???  I haven’t seen anything about it.
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> Thanks.
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> ---Eric
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> ______________________________________________________________________
> From: Eric Meddaugh [mailto:etmsys at rit.edu] 
> Sent: Monday, September 24, 2007 09:18
> To: hobbit at hswn.dk
> Subject: [hobbit] Weird Alerting behavior...bug or expected??
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> We have the following the the Alerts file:
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> # on-call page
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> $TSSSYS_ONCALL_DAY=SCRIPT /home/hobbit/server/ext/qpage.pl
> tss_sys_oncall COLOR=red REPEAT=10 TIME=W:0800:1700 RECOVERED
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> $TSSSYS_ONCALL_OFF=SCRIPT /home/hobbit/server/ext/qpage.pl
> tss_sys_oncall COLOR=red REPEAT=20 TIME=W:1700:0800 RECOVERED
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> $TSSSYS_ONCALL_END=SCRIPT /home/hobbit/server/ext/qpage.pl
> tss_sys_oncall COLOR=red REPEAT=20 TIME=06:*:* RECOVERED
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> $DUPING=%(mxgate)
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> HOST=$DUPING SERVICE=conn
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>         $TSSSYS_ONCALL_DAY
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>         $TSSSYS_ONCALL_OFF
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>         $TSSSYS_ONCALL_END
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> We had a host (mxgate03) go down at 3:15am, it sent 1 initial page,
> but no follow ups.  No repeats.  Does Monday from 12am-8am fall in a
> “limbo” timeframe where the 2nd rule does not apply since it’s not a
> Weekday after 5pm, but before 8am???   The host was down for over 3
> hours without any follow up pages.
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> Do I need a rule similar to:
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> $TSSSYS_ONCALL_MON=SCRIPT /home/hobbit/server/ext/qpage.pl
> tss_sys_oncall COLOR=red REPEAT=10 TIME=1:0000:0800 RECOVERED
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> The different rules are suppose to repeat 10 minute during business
> hours, and 20 minutes off-hours.
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> Any ideas?  Is this a bug or expected behavior? 
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> Thanks.
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> ---Eric
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