[hobbit] Alerts on server reboot?

[Stewart]

If it matters, we're running this in redhat Enterprise.

Henrik Stoerner wrote:
> 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
>
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