[hobbit] Downtime tag syntax

[Root, Paul]

I'm getting close.
 
 
What just worked for me in hobbit-alerts.cfg, was:
 
HOST=%$HG-VSNL COLOR=red,purple DURATION>7 TIME=*:1100:1030
        MAIL $NG-IM-ADMIN
        MAIL $NG-IM-ONCALL FORMAT=SMS

So send alerts from 11:00 am to 10:30 am every day.
 
 
 
 
What I'm trying right now is:
 
HOST=%$HG-VSNL COLOR=red,purple DURATION>7
        MAIL $NG-IM-ADMIN
        IGNORE SERVICE=procs TIME=*:1110:1130
        MAIL $NG-IM-ONCALL FORMAT=SMS

 
So the email would come, but the page wouldn't happen, and only on
procsm between 11:10 and 11:30 am. 
I've had trouble with this, but that was when the machine was in a large
group, so I'm splitting it to it's own group (with it's backup server).
 
The former should work for you. It should look like:
 
HOST=<HOSTNAME> SERVICE=cpu,mysql COLOR=red DURATION>7 TIME=*:1800:1900
    MAIL <WHEREVER> FORMAT=SMS
 
Test it with
 
bbcmd hobbitd_alert --test <HOSTNAME> cpu --duration=8 time=1229646890
 
 
the time value is in epochtime. That number is seconds. It's roughly
6:30 pm CST.
 

Paul Root         IM/MNS Infrastructure    

 



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	From: Jason Chambers [mailto:Jason.Chambers at geosoft.com] 
	Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2008 11:11 AM
	To: 'hobbit at hswn.dk'
	Subject: RE: [hobbit] Downtime tag syntax
	
	

	Argh!

	 

	I don't want to answer my PDA every night at 6pm because of a
stupid backup job overloading the CPU and DB. L There has to be a way to
get this to work...

	 

	Jason Chambers
	IT Help Desk Associate
	
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	From: Root, Paul [mailto:Paul.Root at qwest.com] 
	Sent: December-18-08 11:11 AM
	To: hobbit at hswn.dk
	Subject: RE: [hobbit] Downtime tag syntax

	 

	That syntax looks right.

	 

	Unfortunately, I think it's just broken. I've been fighting this
all week. I've tried DOWNTIME, TIME on the HOST line of
hobbit-alerts.cfg, TIME with IGNORE.

	I've tried it with a bogus alarm, and with procs. I had it
working with a bogus alarm, but it always ignores procs.

	 

	bbcmd hobbitd_alerts ....    parses it correctly, and you think
you're going to get what you want. But then 2:11am the oncall is still
paged.

	 

	I have this on Solaris 10 (in a zone) with Hobbit 4.2.0 and
yesterday upgraded to Xymon 4.2.2. Same deal.

	 

	 

	Paul Root         IM/MNS Infrastructure    

	 

		 

		
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		From: Jason Chambers [mailto:Jason.Chambers at geosoft.com]

		Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2008 7:35 AM
		To: 'hobbit at hswn.dk'
		Subject: [hobbit] Downtime tag syntax

		Hey everyone,

		
		I'm having problems with the DOWNTIME: tag on a host as
it appears not to be working. Can anyone see what I am doing wrong?

		 

		DOWNTIME:cpu,mysql:*:1800:1830:Backups

		 

		Jason Chambers
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