[Xymon] problem with setting time window for alerts

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I'm apparently doing something extremely wrong trying to set a time window for alerts for a specific server. This server burns up cpu every night and we don't want to see alarms for it, so I tried doing this to block those alarms in my hosts.cfg file -

IP servername # conn NKTIME=*:0800:2200

I thought this was working but all of a sudden this weekend we got a ton of alarms from it again during the night.

Hi, Elizabeth.

Try this, instead:

DOWNTIME=cpu:*:hhmm:hhmm:"Reason"

I use this for the backups on my servers, as the CPU spikes during those operations. Instead of a yellow or red, during those timeframes, it shows blue and does not send out alerts.