[hobbit] alert storm / intelligent extra mailscript

[Martin Flemming]

Ok, i've to read again the manual first .. :-(

http://www.hswn.dk/hobbit/help/manpages/man1/bb.1.html

XYMON MESSAGE SYNTAX

disable HOSTNAME.TESTNAME DURATION <additional text>
     Disables a specific test for DURATION minutes. This will cause the 
status of this test to be listed as "blue" on the BBDISPLAY server, and no 
alerts for this host/test will be generated. If DURATION is given as a 
number followed by s/m/h/d, it is interpreted as being in seconds/minutes/hours/days respectively. 
Todisablealltestsforahost,useanasterisk*forTESTNAME.

Right ?

I will try it .. sorry

cheers,
 	martin

On Fri, 17 Apr 2009, Martin Flemming wrote:

>
> On Fri, 17 Apr 2009, Buchan Milne wrote:
>
>>  On Friday 17 April 2009 11:16:17 Martin Flemming wrote:
>> >  Hi !
>> > 
>> >  I've got an problem with my colleagues and the alert-storm
>> >  if a hole batchfarm will be rebooted for kernel-upgrade etc.
>> >    .. and the person, who did it, doesn't deactivate them or make an
>> >  Acknowledge-Downtime, don't ask me why ... he hate web-guis, want to 
>> >  make
>> >  only one command on the console ...
>> > 
>> >  I know, i asked something similiar before
>> >  http://www.hswn.dk/hobbiton/2009/01/msg00398.html
>> >  Re: [hobbit] remote/commandline Acknowledge Alerts
>>
>>  IMHO, planned changes should be preceded by disabling the tests that would
>>  be
>>  affected,
>
> Yep,  you're right of course ..
>
>>  which can easily be done with a command-line ...
>
> But how i know early the alert-id for the host/service e.g. cpu & conn for 
> host1,host2 ?
>
> NAME
>        bb-ack.cgi - Hobbit CGI script to acknowledge alerts
>
>
>       bb-ack.cgi is passed a QUERY_STRING environment variable with the 
> ACTION, NUMBER, DELAY and MESSAGE parameters.
>
>
>       NUMBER is the number identifying the host/service to be acknowledged. 
> It is included in all alert-messages sent out by Hobbit.
>
> Or did i something missing ?
>
> cheers,
>
>       Martin
>
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