[hobbit] Hobbit downtime stats

[Henrik Stoerner]

On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 10:52:07AM +0900, Everett, Vernon wrote:
>  
> Hobbit has a beautiful facility to calculate uptime stats.
> But PHBs, being what they are, want more.
> Is there a way to flag an outage as "scheduled" or similar, and not
> include it in the uptime stats calculation?

There is, but you have to do it in advance: By disabling the host or
status that is planned to be down.

> It would be good to be able to flag the scheduled outage as "not a real
> outage" after the fact, because during the outage, we use Hobbit to keep
> tabs on what goes down and comes up and when.

I know, I've had the same request from my own users.


Henrik