When Ohio was torn apart by the storm a few weeks ago I did as Henrik just suggested. I let it boot normally, then went in and stopped sendmail. I dropped the mail spool and a few hours (or a day) later when customers started to gain power I brought it back with a clean queue. I had several alerts but as they were all email I didn't much mind.

The alerts I had that were for our major backhauls go to my mobile via SMS. Those can cause an issue and really the only way I can imagine getting around this is to create route: for the hop previous to it.

One suggestion I would love to see in Hobbit is a summary email of alerts in the case of a certain number of red hosts.

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

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On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 4:42 PM, Henrik Stoerner <henrik at hswn.dk> wrote:

In <346972.30160.qm at web38606.mail.mud.yahoo.com> "jm54601 at yahoo.com" < jm54601 at yahoo.com> writes:

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We had add an 'a-ha' moment the other day when our Hobbit server lost netwo= rk connectivity, and once rebooted it blasted out basically every alert con= figured.=A0 If this were to happen again, is there a way to silence or dele= te queued alerts before rebooting?=0A=0AI'm also curious how this community= handles a case like=A0that.=0A=0A=0A

I suppose your alerts go out via e-mail ? In that case, the issue resolves to stopping your mailer daemon and clearing the mail queue of the pending alerts.

Regards, Henrik

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