We will be having a site-wide shutdown in the near future and I would like to find a way to prevent a deluge of emails/pages as we recover the systems.
Usually, we'd just enable/disable the systems/tests that we don't want to hear about, but that puts every test in a blue color and doesn't give us an easy way to see what each system is doing by simply looking at the non-green view. We have to click on each status to see the "true" color of the test (green, red, yellow, or purple), and that won't be very efficient when we are dealing with hundreds of servers.
Is it possible to turn off just the hobbit alert module, so that hobbit will do everything like it normally does EXCEPT mail the alerts? I thought about using a temporary hobbit-alerts.cfg that doesn't contain email addresses or killing the hobbitd_alert process (bad idea I'm sure), but wasn't sure if there was a better way to deal with this. I didn't see anything in the hobbitd_alert manpage that addresses this kind of scenario, so I thought I'd ask.
BTW, we're using hobbit 4.0.4.
Thanks,
Tom