[hobbit] Recommendation on setting regular maintenance exclusion for reporting
Jason Hand
jason at hands4christ.org
Sat Nov 22 16:13:26 CET 2008
That worked like a charm. I had not used that spec before but that was
exactly what I was looking for.
Thanks for the suggestion.
-Jason
-----Original Message-----
From: Alan Sparks [mailto:asparks at doublesparks.net]
Sent: Friday, November 21, 2008 7:28 PM
To: hobbit at hswn.dk
Subject: Re: [hobbit] Recommendation on setting regular maintenance
exclusion for reporting
Can't you just use the DOWNTIME specification in bb-hosts for those clients?
-Alan
Jason Hand wrote:
> These are a variety of monitored entities including windows machines
> and web sites.
>
> How would that work as you describe? Do I just substitute the days,
> "yourhobbitserver" with the name or localhost, "yourhobbitclient" with
> the hostname of the client to disable, "60" with number of minutes to
> disable it, and then the "Scheduled reboot" would be the cause?
>
> And this cron job would run on the Hobbit server right?
>
> Thanks ,
> Jason
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ulric Eriksson [mailto:ulric at siag.nu]
> Sent: Friday, November 21, 2008 6:58 PM
> To: hobbit at hswn.dk
> Subject: Re: [hobbit] Recommendation on setting regular maintenance
> exclusion for reporting
>
>
>
> On Fri, 21 Nov 2008, Jason Hand wrote:
>
>
>> I am just looking for what you think is the best way to exclude a few
>> clients from reporting problems during regular 3-time a week
>> maintenance periods where these are naturally going to be off or not
>>
> reporting.
>
>> How would I set that in the best way?
>>
>
> Set up a cron job to disable them at those times.
>
> 0 1 * * mon,wed,fri /home/hobbit/server/bin/bb yourhobbitserver
> "disable yourhobbitclient 60 Scheduled reboot"
>
>
> Ulric
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