Purple messages on what? Connection alarms should only go red, maybe for a couple polling cycles. Services, I'd imagine, would come back up with the server.
Regardless, you can suppress alarms for a given host and/or service on that host with several ways. The two that come to mind for me are:
- Use the DOWNTIME directive in bb-hosts (see the man-page)
- Use the web interface to disable the host tests for however long you need when you need to restart a server.
The alarms will still be logged, but won't show up or flow up the chain to bb2.html or whatnot.
Hope that helps.
Tod Hansmann Network Engineer
-----Original Message----- From: Stewart [mailto:stl19847 at yahoo.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2007 8:45 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: [hobbit] Alerts on server reboot?
Is there a way to suppress the flood of alerts we get on a server reboot? If the machine is down for 10 minutes and comes back up, we get flooded with purple messages.
-- Stewart
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