Hi everyone,
To answer my own question, in short: "TIME=*:2300:0759" is equivalent to "TIME=*:2300:2400,*:0000:0759" and thus solves our problem. Xymon is indeed a fine and well-thought piece of software.
Expanded explanation: While RTFM-ing 'man bb-hosts' and 'man hobbit-alerts.cfg' I could find out that the time format of the alerts has the same format as DOWNTIME has in bb-hosts which in turn has the same format as NKTIME. Even more, NKTIME is explicitly allowing the following:
--- cut here --- The interval between starttime and endtime may cross midnight, e.g. *:2330:0200 would be valid and have the same effect as *:2330:2400,*:0000:0200. --- and here ---
Sorry for the noise, thought I'd mention my findings for future reference.
On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 6:55 PM, Kii NODA <kii.noda at gmail.com> wrote:
Hi everyone,
In our journey towards completely and successfully deploying Xymon on our machines we've come over this situation: we want to have an alert coming to us if the duration is over 30 minutes between 0800 and 2259 AND every 60 minutes between 2300 and 0759 the next day. They need to be repeated every 120 minutes in both cases.
- Would the following set of rules work given a setting like "TIME=*:2300:0759"? --- cut here --- MAIL email at recipient.tld DURATION>30 REPEAT=120 RECOVERED NOTICE TIME=*:0800:2259 MAIL email at recipient.tld DURATION>60 REPEAT=120 RECOVERED NOTICE TIME=*:2300:0759 --- and here ---
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-- kN