[hobbit] DOWNTIME not working

[Dominique Frise]

The syntax of your first rule is correct but I think only yellow or red 
status can be reset with DOWNTIME (not purple).

 From bb-hosts(5):

... 
DOWNTIME=[columns:]day:starttime:endtime:cause[,day:starttime:endtime:cause]
           This tag can be used to  ignore  failed  checks  during
           specific  times  of  the day - e.g. if you run services
           that are only monitored e.g. Mon-Fri  8am-5pm,  or  you
           always reboot a server every Monday between 5 and 6 pm.

           What happens is that if a test fails during the  speci-
           fied  time,  it is reported with status BLUE instead of
           yellow or red.
...

You can ignore purple alerts from the "rouge_detector" with an IGNORE 
directive in hobbit-alerts.cfg. For example:

HOST= Pro015 SERVICE=rouge_detector COLOR=purple TIME=*:1100:0700
    IGNORE

The purple status will show up in the event log though.

Dominique

DKDeckert at Hormel.com wrote:
> Hellow fellow xymon users,
> 
> 
> 
> I am stuck.  I have a custom test on a host that only runs from 7am to
> 11am.  The rest of the time it does not run.  I dont want it to show up
> purple just blue.
> 
> I will put exactly what my bb-hosts file shows
> 
> 
> 0.0.0.0.     Pro015      #NOCOLUMNS:cpu ftp ssh
> DOWNTIME=rouge_detector:*:1100:0700
> 
> i tried this and it should work
> 
> I've also tried
> 
> 0.0.0.0.     Pro015      #NOCOLUMNS:cpu ftp ssh
> "DOWNTIME=rouge_detector:*:1100:0700"
> 0.0.0.0.     Pro015      #NOCOLUMNS:cpu ftp ssh "DOWNTIME=
> [rouge_detector:]*:1100:0700"
> 0.0.0.0.     Pro015      #NOCOLUMNS:cpu ftp ssh DOWNTIME=
> [rouge_detector:]*:1100:0700
> 0.0.0.0.     Pro015      #NOCOLUMNS:cpu ftp ssh SLA=*:1100:0700
> 
> 
> I dont know why the "rouge_detector" test will not go blue.   I just dont
> want it to show up purple from 11am till 7am the next day...
> 
> 
> any ideas...Is this even the correct format ...
> 
> In bb-hosts man pages it says
> 
> DOWNTIME=[columns:]day:starttime:endtime:cause
> [,day:starttime:endtime:cause]
> 
> thanks guys....you guys save my job :D
> 
> 
> 
> 
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