[hobbit] monitoring httpd 24x7 (almost)

Hmm, well I assumed it had always been there, but perhaps it was added later. I'm running a 4.3 snapshot from a couple months back. man bb-hosts has this:

DOWNTIME=[columns:]day:starttime:endtime:cause[,day:starttime:endtime:ca use]

          This tag can be used to ignore failed checks during

specific times of the day - e.g. if you run services

          that are only monitored e.g. Mon-Fri 8am-5pm, or you

always reboot a server every Monday between 5 and 6

          pm.



          The timespecification consists of



          day: W means Mon-Fri ("weekdays"), * means all days, 0 ..

6 = Sunday .. Saturday. Listing multiple days

          is possible, e.g. "60" is valid meaning "Saturday and

Sunday".

          starttime: Time to start showing errors, must be in

24-hour clock format as HHMM hours/minutes. E.g.

          for 8 am enter "0800", for 9.30 pm enter "2130"



          endtime: Time to stop showing errors.



          If  necessary, multiple periods can be specified. E.g. to

monitor a site 24x7, except between noon and 1

          pm, use DOWNTIME=*:0000:1159,*:1300:2359



          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.



          What  happens is that if a test fails during the specified

time, it is reported with status BLUE instead

          of yellow or red. Thus you can still see when the service

was unavailable, but alarms will not be trig-

          gered  and the downtime is not counted in the availability

calculations generated by the Hobbit reports.

          The "columns" setting is optional - it may be a

comma-separated list of status columns in which case the

          DOWNTIME setting only applies to these columns.



          The "cause" string (optional) is a text that will be

displayed on the status web page to explain thy the

          system is down.

From: Wood, Mike [mailto:Mike.Wood at kci1.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 10:54 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: RE: [hobbit] monitoring httpd 24x7 (almost)

My man page only shows DOWNTIME=day:starttime:endtime:cause[,day:starttime:endtime:cause].

It goes on to say that the syntax is the same as NKTIME. NKTIME doesn't seem to support a service either, but NK does.

Was there a patch to Hobbit that modified this behavior and/or man page?

From: Dugan, Darin D [EIT] [mailto:dddugan at iastate.edu] Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 10:42 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: RE: [hobbit] monitoring httpd 24x7 (almost)

Check the man page...DOWNTIME can specify specific columns instead of the entire host.

Cheers.

From: Wood, Mike [mailto:Mike.Wood at kci1.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 8:30 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: [hobbit] monitoring httpd 24x7 (almost)

Hi All,

I'd like to monitor "http://[hostname]:10003" 24x7, except for 10 minutes on Sunday morning.

However:

I can't use DOWNTIME in bb-hosts, because that puts the entire host out of service.

I can't use hobbit-clients.cfg, because it doesn't support any tags that affect the HTTP column.

As a work-around, I can use PROC in hobbit-clients.cfg, but that affects the PROCS column instead.

Thoughts?

Or am I failing my documentation reading skills somewhere? J

Mike Wood

UNIX System Administrator

Kinetic Concepts Inc.

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San Antonio, TX, 78249

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