[hobbit] Disabling alert nightly

Allan Spencer allan at zandahar.net
Fri May 2 07:38:21 CEST 2008


The only thing I can think is the * overides/conflicts with the 
individual day entries and it doesnt like this ?

What if you leave it with just the Saturday and Sunday Entries ?

Allan


Josh Luthman wrote:
> I am having some issues with this one...
> DOWNTIME=*:1930:0730:nightlyoff,6:0830:2359:OffSaturday,0:0000:2359:OffSunday
>
> Info page says:
> All days:1930:0730:nightlyoff, Sat:0830:2359:OffSaturday, 
> Sun:0000:2359:OffSunday
>
> But hobbitd is complaining:
> Latest errormessages:
> Bad timespec (missing colon or wrong weekdays): 1930:0730:nightlyoff
> Is there something wrong with the *?
>
> On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 11:11 AM, Josh Luthman 
> <josh at imaginenetworksllc.com <mailto:josh at imaginenetworksllc.com>> wrote:
>
>     Thanks again!
>
>     DOWNTIME=*:1930:0730:nightlyoff,5:0000:2359:OffSaturday,6:0000:2359:OffSunday
>
>     6:0000:2359:OffSunday <--that is my only question before I try it
>     - shouldn't it be 6 for Sunday and 5 for Saturday?
>
>     Josh
>
>
>     On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 10:44 AM, L.M.J <linuxmasterjedi at free.fr
>     <mailto:linuxmasterjedi at free.fr>> wrote:
>
>         Hi again,
>
>
>         Le Thu, 1 May 2008 09:27:19 -0400,
>         "Josh Luthman" <josh at imaginenetworksllc.com
>         <mailto:josh at imaginenetworksllc.com>> a écrit :
>
>         > LMJ,
>         >
>         > Excellent! That answers half my question - but now I need to
>         disable it all
>         > day on the weekends; can you have two time frames in one
>         downtime statement?
>         >
>         > Josh
>         >
>         > On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 4:49 AM, L.M.J
>         <linuxmasterjedi at free.fr <mailto:linuxmasterjedi at free.fr>> wrote:
>         >
>         > > Hi Josh
>         > >
>         > > Le Thu, 1 May 2008 00:44:04 -0400,
>         > > "Josh Luthman" <josh at imaginenetworksllc.com
>         <mailto:josh at imaginenetworksllc.com>> a écrit :
>         > >
>         > > > I have a device that shuts down at 7:30pm and comes back
>         up at 7:30am. What
>         > > > is the best way to disable this host every single night?
>         > > > I would like it to be marked as disabled during this
>         time, but I definitely
>         > > > do not want the bb.html, bb2.html and bb.wml showing up
>         red - red is bad!  I
>         > > > also need it to stop sending email alerts.
>         > > >
>         > > > Would DOWNTIME= be what am I looking for?  If so can
>         someone explain how the
>         > > >
>         day:starttime:endtime:cause[,day:starttime:endtime:cause] gets
>         filled it?
>         > > >
>         > > > I need it to be every weekday in the evenings and nights
>         as well as every weekend.
>         > >
>         > > I had almost the same issue : do not display databases
>         connection errors during the night backup, here we
>         > > go :
>         > >
>         > >  ip.ip.ip.ip   name    # conn foo bar    NAME:"Nice Name"
>         DOWNTIME=*:1930:0730:MyReason
>         > >
>         > >  That's it ;)
>
>         Test this :
>         DOWNTIME=*:1930:0730:MyReason,5:0000:2359:OffSaturday,5:0000:2359:OffSunday
>
>         What do you think about this one ? ;)
>
>
>
>
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>
>
>
> -- 
> Josh Luthman
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> Direct: 937-552-2343
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>
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> --- Henry Spencer 




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