On Fri, 12 Aug 2011, David Stuffle wrote:

Has anyone come up with a menu button that will disable all alerting while leaving the tests enabled? This would be the same as disabling the "alert" section in the tasks.cfg file, but it would be much easier and faster for people not as familiar with Xymon file system files to just click on a menu button to disable and re-enable all alerting.

I could make a script to swap out the alerts.cfg with a blank one and make a menu button point to it, or something similar, but I wanted to see if anyone has a better way of doing it. Is there an internal Xymon command that will disable the "alert" task?

Hi, Dave !

I think you can make this with

http://www.xymon.com/xymon/help/manpages/man1/xymon.1.html

disable HOSTNAME.TESTNAME DURATION <additional text> Disables a specific test for DURATION minutes. This will cause the status of this test to be listed as "blue" on the Xymon server, and no alerts for this host/test will be generated. If DURATION is given as a number followed by s/m/h/d, it is interpreted as being in seconds/minutes/hours/days respectively. To disable a test until it becomes OK, use "-1" as the DURATION. To disable all tests for a host, use an asterisk "*" for TESTNAME.

enable HOSTNAME.TESTNAME Re-enables a test that had been disabled.

By the way, i've got an script from my colleague for this

http://lists.xymon.com/oldarchive/2009/07/msg00277.html

If you want to test it, if it's useful for your, no problem ...

cheers,

    Martin