Last night I had the first opportunity to use maint.pl. After performing so tasks to get it to work (Let apache have permissions to bb commands, let apache run at jobs (may want to put a hint about this)) I was able to schedule a downtime for a particular machine from 8:30 - 9:00 this morning.
I received no alarms between 8:30 and 9:00 so I was happy it worked. However at 9am when hobbit enabled the service, hobbit-alert sent 4 alarms in purple states for the various test. Within minutes they went green after hobbit performed the test (content, https, sslcert and conn). This seems like a bug. Shouldn't hobbit try to poll the service just before enabling (or give some grace period) so it will come on in a green state (and not purple)?
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