[hobbit] Disabling alert nightly

[L.M.J]

Hi Josh

Le Thu, 1 May 2008 00:44:04 -0400,
"Josh Luthman" <josh at imaginenetworksllc.com> a écrit :

> I have a device that shuts down at 7:30pm and comes back up at 7:30am.  What
> is the best way to disable this host every single night?
> 
> I would like it to be marked as disabled during this time, but I definitely
> do not want the bb.html, bb2.html and bb.wml showing up red - red is bad!  I
> also need it to stop sending email alerts.
> 
> Would DOWNTIME= be what am I looking for?  If so can someone explain how the
> day:starttime:endtime:cause[,day:starttime:endtime:cause] gets filled it?
> 
> I need it to be every weekday in the evenings and nights as well as every
> weekend.

I had almost the same issue : do not display databases connection errors during the night backup, here we go :

 ip.ip.ip.ip   name    # conn foo bar    NAME:"Nice Name"     DOWNTIME=*:1930:0730:MyReason

 That's it ;)

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