[Xymon] Downtime for disk check?

On 7/03/14 4:02 AM, Eric Jacobs wrote:

Every morning, sometime between 5 and 7, a particvular machine fills up a disk and then, after a while it goes back down (backups followed by clean up). Can I use "Downtime" for the disk alert?

If it's the alerts rather than the actual colour that is the issue, another option is in alerts.cfg to add an IGNORE rule - this still preserves the colour status being reported by the test (rather than making it blue for the duration of the DOWNTIME), but just stops the alerts. With judicious use of regular expressions this can be very flexible.

Some examples:

PAGE=%(esx|infra|storage|win|dmz|gw|wansites|external|pabx|site).* IGNORE PAGE=win TIME=234:0000:0355 # WSUS update window IGNORE PAGE=dmz TIME=234:0000:0355 # WSUS update window IGNORE PAGE=interstate SERVICE=%(msgs|svcs) TIME=234:0000:0355 # WSUS update window IGNORE PAGE=interstate SERVICE=%(ldap|dns|conn) DURATION<5m IGNORE HOST=%(backup[12]).* SERVICE=files TIME=*:1900:2100 IGNORE HOST=%(host1).* SERVICE=msgs TIME=*:0100:0115 IGNORE HOST=%(sihotvsv).* SERVICE=svcs TIME=45:0500:0535 IGNORE HOST=%(\.ilo\.).* EXHOST=%(dr4100.*) IGNORE HOST=%(^webfilter\..*) SERVICE=%(http|wwwproxy) DURATION<10m # a bit noisy so only notify on multiple IGNORE HOST=%(^(flakyweb)\..*) SERVICE=%(http) DURATION<3m # flapping IGNORE PAGE=%(win|interstate|dmz|gw) EXHOST=%(^(host1|ns\d|wwwproxy.*|.*\.ilo)($|\..*)) SERVICE=msgs IGNORE SERVICE=%(adlock) # adlock notification unecessary IGNORE SERVICE=%(cpu|imap|pop3|smb|smtp|ftp|svcs|ports) DURATION<10m # wait for multiple reds IGNORE SERVICE=%(conn|ssh) DURATION<2m # wait for multiple reds, short test cycle time SCRIPT /usr/lib/xymon/server/ext/html_mail.pl pg-net HOST=%((.*gw\d*|(dmz|sw|ext)[^.]*)\..*\.my\.domain) REPEAT=1440 COLOR=RED STOP # network devices SCRIPT /usr/lib/xymon/server/ext/html_mail.pl pg-sysadmins REPEAT=1440 COLOR=RED

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