We do this also.
The most important benefit for us is that people who are doing planned work during our regular maintenance interval can watch Xymon to see what's impacted as they work.
On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 10:19 AM, Root, Paul T <Paul.Root at centurylink.com> wrote:
I do a similar thing. If we have a xymon storm, like if we lose a WAN link to a major part of our network, we will change the alias of who receives the email to 'nobody'.
That way, there is still the paper trail of notifications, but the inbox doesn't get hammered.
-----Original Message----- From: Xymon [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Becker Christian Sent: Friday, October 23, 2015 1:34 AM To: 'Eli' Cc: xymon Subject: Re: [Xymon] Xymon maintaienance
Hello,
we do this that way, that using a script in cron, at a certain time we copy alerts.cfg to alerts.cfg.work and copy an empty alerts.cfg.empty to alerts.cfg. If the file alerts.cfg is empty, there's no reason for Xymon to do any alerting. After this certain time, we copy the original file alerts.cfg back in place.
For my opinion this is a bit easier to do than writing a DOWNTIME statement to all of your nodes that are configured in hosts.cfg
Regards Christian
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