Hi Jason,

I use the following with no issues..

DOWNTIME=6:*:0200:0500:Maintenance

So I presume something like the following works:

DOWNTIME=*:cpu,mysql:1800:1830:Backups

regards,

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From: Jason Chambers [mailto:Jason.Chambers at geosoft.com] Sent: 18 December 2008 17:11 To: 'hobbit at hswn.dk' Subject: RE: [hobbit] Downtime tag syntax

Argh!

I don't want to answer my PDA every night at 6pm because of a stupid backup job overloading the CPU and DB. L There has to be a way to get this to work...

Jason Chambers IT Help Desk Associate

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From: Root, Paul [mailto:Paul.Root at qwest.com] Sent: December-18-08 11:11 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: RE: [hobbit] Downtime tag syntax

That syntax looks right.

Unfortunately, I think it's just broken. I've been fighting this all week. I've tried DOWNTIME, TIME on the HOST line of hobbit-alerts.cfg, TIME with IGNORE.

I've tried it with a bogus alarm, and with procs. I had it working with a bogus alarm, but it always ignores procs.

bbcmd hobbitd_alerts .... parses it correctly, and you think you're going to get what you want. But then 2:11am the oncall is still paged.

I have this on Solaris 10 (in a zone) with Hobbit 4.2.0 and yesterday upgraded to Xymon 4.2.2. Same deal.

Paul Root IM/MNS Infrastructure

From: Jason Chambers [mailto:Jason.Chambers at geosoft.com] 
Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2008 7:35 AM
To: 'hobbit at hswn.dk'
Subject: [hobbit] Downtime tag syntax

Hey everyone,


I'm having problems with the DOWNTIME: tag on a host as it

appears not to be working. Can anyone see what I am doing wrong?

DOWNTIME:cpu,mysql:*:1800:1830:Backups

 

Jason Chambers
IT Help Desk Associate

GEOSOFT INC.
freedom to explore
T +1 416.369.0111 #344
F +1 416.369.9599

Visit our site at www.geosoft.com

 

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In that case try...

DOWNTIME=*:1800:1830

Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373

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On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 12:17 PM, Clint Simmons <csimmons at approsystems.com>wrote:

Jason,

Have you tried removing ":Backups"? I had problems using a comment at the end so I just removed mine and it worked fine.

Clint Simmons

Network Engineer

Equifax, Inc.

*From:* Jason Chambers [mailto:Jason.Chambers at geosoft.com] *Sent:* Thursday, December 18, 2008 11:11 AM

*To:* 'hobbit at hswn.dk' *Subject:* RE: [hobbit] Downtime tag syntax

Argh!

I don't want to answer my PDA every night at 6pm because of a stupid backup job overloading the CPU and DB. L There has to be a way to get this to work...

*Jason Chambers *IT Help Desk Associate

*GEOSOFT INC. **freedom to explore *T +1 416.369.0111 #344 F +1 416.369.9599

Visit our site at www.geosoft.com

*From:* Root, Paul [mailto:Paul.Root at qwest.com] *Sent:* December-18-08 11:11 AM *To:* hobbit at hswn.dk *Subject:* RE: [hobbit] Downtime tag syntax

That syntax looks right.

Unfortunately, I think it's just broken. I've been fighting this all week. I've tried DOWNTIME, TIME on the HOST line of hobbit-alerts.cfg, TIME with IGNORE.

I've tried it with a bogus alarm, and with procs. I had it working with a bogus alarm, but it always ignores procs.

bbcmd hobbitd_alerts .... parses it correctly, and you think you're going to get what you want. But then 2:11am the oncall is still paged.

I have this on Solaris 10 (in a zone) with Hobbit 4.2.0 and yesterday upgraded to Xymon 4.2.2. Same deal.

Paul Root IM/MNS Infrastructure

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*From:* Jason Chambers [mailto:Jason.Chambers at geosoft.com] *Sent:* Thursday, December 18, 2008 7:35 AM *To:* 'hobbit at hswn.dk' *Subject:* [hobbit] Downtime tag syntax

Hey everyone,

I'm having problems with the DOWNTIME: tag on a host as it appears not to be working. Can anyone see what I am doing wrong?

DOWNTIME:cpu,mysql:*:1800:1830:Backups

*Jason Chambers *IT Help Desk Associate

*GEOSOFT INC. **freedom to explore *T +1 416.369.0111 #344 F +1 416.369.9599

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I'm getting close.

What just worked for me in hobbit-alerts.cfg, was:

HOST=%$HG-VSNL COLOR=red,purple DURATION>7 TIME=*:1100:1030 MAIL $NG-IM-ADMIN MAIL $NG-IM-ONCALL FORMAT=SMS

So send alerts from 11:00 am to 10:30 am every day.

What I'm trying right now is:

HOST=%$HG-VSNL COLOR=red,purple DURATION>7 MAIL $NG-IM-ADMIN IGNORE SERVICE=procs TIME=*:1110:1130 MAIL $NG-IM-ONCALL FORMAT=SMS

So the email would come, but the page wouldn't happen, and only on procsm between 11:10 and 11:30 am. I've had trouble with this, but that was when the machine was in a large group, so I'm splitting it to it's own group (with it's backup server).

The former should work for you. It should look like:

HOST=<HOSTNAME> SERVICE=cpu,mysql COLOR=red DURATION>7 TIME=*:1800:1900 MAIL <WHEREVER> FORMAT=SMS

Test it with

bbcmd hobbitd_alert --test <HOSTNAME> cpu --duration=8 time=1229646890

the time value is in epochtime. That number is seconds. It's roughly 6:30 pm CST.

Paul Root IM/MNS Infrastructure

From: Jason Chambers [mailto:Jason.Chambers at geosoft.com] 
Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2008 11:11 AM
To: 'hobbit at hswn.dk'
Subject: RE: [hobbit] Downtime tag syntax



Argh!

 

I don't want to answer my PDA every night at 6pm because of a

stupid backup job overloading the CPU and DB. L There has to be a way to get this to work...

Jason Chambers
IT Help Desk Associate

GEOSOFT INC.
freedom to explore
T +1 416.369.0111 #344
F +1 416.369.9599

Visit our site at www.geosoft.com

 

From: Root, Paul [mailto:Paul.Root at qwest.com] 
Sent: December-18-08 11:11 AM
To: hobbit at hswn.dk
Subject: RE: [hobbit] Downtime tag syntax

 

That syntax looks right.

 

Unfortunately, I think it's just broken. I've been fighting this

all week. I've tried DOWNTIME, TIME on the HOST line of hobbit-alerts.cfg, TIME with IGNORE.

I've tried it with a bogus alarm, and with procs. I had it

working with a bogus alarm, but it always ignores procs.

bbcmd hobbitd_alerts ....    parses it correctly, and you think

you're going to get what you want. But then 2:11am the oncall is still paged.

I have this on Solaris 10 (in a zone) with Hobbit 4.2.0 and

yesterday upgraded to Xymon 4.2.2. Same deal.

Paul Root         IM/MNS Infrastructure    

 

	 

	

	From: Jason Chambers [mailto:Jason.Chambers at geosoft.com]

	Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2008 7:35 AM
	To: 'hobbit at hswn.dk'
	Subject: [hobbit] Downtime tag syntax

	Hey everyone,

	
	I'm having problems with the DOWNTIME: tag on a host as

it appears not to be working. Can anyone see what I am doing wrong?

	DOWNTIME:cpu,mysql:*:1800:1830:Backups

	 

	Jason Chambers
	IT Help Desk Associate
	
	GEOSOFT INC.
	freedom to explore
	T +1 416.369.0111 #344
	F +1 416.369.9599
	
	Visit our site at www.geosoft.com

	 



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Since I'm using the * the time stamp wraps around.

It just worked, the way I wanted it. I forced a red condition during a ignore time window, and I got the email during the window, after the window expired, the page came through.

Looks like other emails said your format was wrong. Someone had the format DAY:SERVICE:START:END:COMMENT. That doesn't match up with the web page man pages.

What I have down here worked 1 hour ago on Xymon 4.2.2 compiled on Solaris 10 8/07 in a zone.

Paul Root IM/MNS Infrastructure

From: Josh Luthman [mailto:josh at imaginenetworksllc.com] 
Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2008 11:43 AM
To: hobbit at hswn.dk
Subject: Re: [hobbit] Downtime tag syntax


>HOST=%$HG-VSNL COLOR=red,purple DURATION>7 TIME=*:1100:1030
        MAIL $NG-IM-ADMIN
        MAIL $NG-IM-ONCALL FORMAT=SMS

So send alerts from 11:00 am to 10:30 am every day.

Isn't this kind of like dividing by zero?  How does this

actually work, does it cover all day except that half hour window?

Josh Luthman
Office: 937-552-2340
Direct: 937-552-2343
1100 Wayne St
Suite 1337
Troy, OH 45373

Those who don't understand UNIX are condemned to reinvent it,

poorly. --- Henry Spencer

On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 12:36 PM, Root, Paul

<Paul.Root at qwest.com> wrote:

	I'm getting close.
	 
	 
	What just worked for me in hobbit-alerts.cfg, was:
	 
	HOST=%$HG-VSNL COLOR=red,purple DURATION>7

TIME=*:1100:1030 MAIL $NG-IM-ADMIN MAIL $NG-IM-ONCALL FORMAT=SMS So send alerts from 11:00 am to 10:30 am every day. What I'm trying right now is: HOST=%$HG-VSNL COLOR=red,purple DURATION>7 MAIL $NG-IM-ADMIN IGNORE SERVICE=procs TIME=*:1110:1130 MAIL $NG-IM-ONCALL FORMAT=SMS So the email would come, but the page wouldn't happen, and only on procsm between 11:10 and 11:30 am. I've had trouble with this, but that was when the machine was in a large group, so I'm splitting it to it's own group (with it's backup server). The former should work for you. It should look like: HOST=<HOSTNAME> SERVICE=cpu,mysql COLOR=red DURATION>7 TIME=*:1800:1900 MAIL <WHEREVER> FORMAT=SMS Test it with bbcmd hobbitd_alert --test <HOSTNAME> cpu --duration=8 time=1229646890 the time value is in epochtime. That number is seconds. It's roughly 6:30 pm CST.

	Paul Root         IM/MNS Infrastructure    

	 
	
	

		From: Jason Chambers

[mailto:Jason.Chambers at geosoft.com] Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2008 11:11 AM

		To: 'hobbit at hswn.dk'
		Subject: RE: [hobbit] Downtime tag syntax
		


		Argh!

		 

		I don't want to answer my PDA every night at 6pm

because of a stupid backup job overloading the CPU and DB. L There has to be a way to get this to work...

		Jason Chambers
		IT Help Desk Associate
		
		GEOSOFT INC.
		freedom to explore
		T +1 416.369.0111 #344
		F +1 416.369.9599
		
		Visit our site at www.geosoft.com

		 

		From: Root, Paul [mailto:Paul.Root at qwest.com] 
		Sent: December-18-08 11:11 AM
		To: hobbit at hswn.dk
		Subject: RE: [hobbit] Downtime tag syntax

		 

		That syntax looks right.

		 

		Unfortunately, I think it's just broken. I've

been fighting this all week. I've tried DOWNTIME, TIME on the HOST line of hobbit-alerts.cfg, TIME with IGNORE.

		I've tried it with a bogus alarm, and with

procs. I had it working with a bogus alarm, but it always ignores procs.

		bbcmd hobbitd_alerts ....    parses it

correctly, and you think you're going to get what you want. But then 2:11am the oncall is still paged.

		I have this on Solaris 10 (in a zone) with

Hobbit 4.2.0 and yesterday upgraded to Xymon 4.2.2. Same deal.

		Paul Root         IM/MNS Infrastructure    

		 

			 

			

			From: Jason Chambers

[mailto:Jason.Chambers at geosoft.com] Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2008 7:35 AM To: 'hobbit at hswn.dk' Subject: [hobbit] Downtime tag syntax

			Hey everyone,

			
			I'm having problems with the DOWNTIME:

tag on a host as it appears not to be working. Can anyone see what I am doing wrong?

			DOWNTIME:cpu,mysql:*:1800:1830:Backups

			 

			Jason Chambers
			IT Help Desk Associate
			
			GEOSOFT INC.
			freedom to explore
			T +1 416.369.0111 #344
			F +1 416.369.9599
			
			Visit our site at www.geosoft.com

			 

		
		
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