On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 03:38:17PM -0400, Tom Georgoulias wrote:
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. [snip] 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?
Yep, that should work just fine. Just edit hobbitlaunch.cfg and add DISABLE for the hobbitd_alert module, and it will shut down and stop sending out alerts. When your systems are back up, you can re-enable it and alerts should start flowing normally.
(At work, I'm actually running two Hobbit servers in parallel - one is the main production system, the other is a hot standby located at our backup datacenter. The users do not fancy getting all alerts twice, so the backup system is running with the hobbitd_alert module permanently disabled).
Regards, Henrik