[hobbit] Alerts on server reboot?

[Charles Jones]

Last time I faced this scenario, before I started the Hobbit server I 
edited hobbit-alerts.cfg and temporarily commented out the MAIL lines :)
Of course this doesn't help you if you have hobbit set to automatically 
start when the server boots. :)

-Charles

Stewart wrote:
> Re-read my post and I wasn't clear.  This is the Hobbit server going
> down. Not the client machines.
>
> 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.
>
> DOWNTIME won't work, because this is the Hobbit server going down.
> I also can't disable the hobbit host tests because, well, my server is
> down. :)
>
> Stewart
>
>
> Tod Hansmann wrote:
>> Purple messages on what?  Connection alarms should only go red, maybe
>> for a couple polling cycles.  Services, I'd imagine, would come back up
>> with the server.
>>
>> Regardless, you can suppress alarms for a given host and/or service on
>> that host with several ways.  The two that come to mind for me are:
>>  - Use the DOWNTIME directive in bb-hosts (see the man-page)
>>  - Use the web interface to disable the host tests for however long you
>> need when you need to restart a server.
>>
>> The alarms will still be logged, but won't show up or flow up the chain
>> to bb2.html or whatnot.
>>
>> Hope that helps.
>>
>> Tod Hansmann
>> Network Engineer
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Stewart [mailto:stl19847 at yahoo.com]
>> Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2007 8:45 AM
>> To: hobbit at hswn.dk
>> Subject: [hobbit] Alerts on server reboot?
>>
>> Is there a way to suppress the flood of alerts we get on a server
>> reboot?  If the machine is down for 10 minutes and comes back up, we get
>> flooded with purple messages.
>>
>> -- 
>> Stewart
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