[hobbit] Alerts on server reboot?

[Larry Barber]

You can always turn off hobbitd_alert for a few minutes in hobbitlaunch.cfg.


Thanks,
Larry Barber

On 7/11/07, Stewart <stl19847 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> 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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