On 11 March 2015 at 12:12, Scot Kreienkamp <Scot.Kreienkamp at la-z-boy.com> wrote:

Brandon,

I don’t think you can span days. I think you need to use multiple downtime periods.

The man page for hosts.cfg suggests that you can. It says that the DOWNTIME processing is the same as for NKTIME, and that for NKTIME the "interval between start time and end time may cross midnight". It says that "*:2330:0200" would be the same as "*:2330:2400,*:0000:0200".

J

On 11 March 2015 at 13:24, Brandon Dale <BDale at kitchengroup.com.au> wrote:

I’m still having trouble getting my head around this, if I have this:

DOWNTIME=serbia:51:2300:0400:offline

Planned downtime: Fri/Mon:2300:0400 (status:serbia) (cause:offline)

Yes, you might want to test it and see. According to the man page for xymongrep, you can run "xymongrep" on a host that has DOWNTIME specified, and it will tell you INSIDESLA or OUTSIDESLA depending on whether it's outside or inside of the DOWNTIME. (SLA is the opposite of DOWNTIME.) However I've not been able to get xymongrep to do this.

But I think your above example is the same as "serbia:5:2300:0400:offline,serbia:1:2300:0400:offline".

J

Yeah I think you guys are right my syntax doesn’t do what I want.

This might be a better option or at least it’s easier to read.

DOWNTIME=testname:5:2300:0000:offline,testname:6:0000:2400:offline,testname:0:0000:2400:offline,testname:1:0000:0400:offline

And I “think” it’s doing what I want now

Planned downtime: Fri:2300:0000 (status:testname) (cause:offline) Sat:0000:2400 (status:testname) (cause:offline) Sun:0000:2400 (status:testname) (cause:offline) Mon:0000:0400 (status:testname) (cause:offline)

Regards,

Brandon

From: Claessens Jurgen [mailto:Jurgen.Claessens at cegeka.be] Sent: Thursday, 12 March 2015 3:33 PM To: Brandon Dale; Jeremy Laidman; Scot Kreienkamp Cc: xymon at xymon.com Subject: RE: [Xymon] DOWNTIME accross multiple days

Hi,

For the Downtime on specific dyas, you just need to replace the * from the manpage and split it Manpage: It says that "*:2330:0200" would be the same as "*:2330:2400,*:0000:0200". So your downtime would mean: “51:2300:2400,51:0000:0400” Which might not be what you want. I never tend to go over midnight unless the days are linked to each other and the first day I always put separate.

Best regards

Jurgen Claessens From: Xymon [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Brandon Dale Sent: woensdag 11 maart 2015 3:24 To: Jeremy Laidman; Scot Kreienkamp Cc: xymon at xymon.com<mailto:xymon at xymon.com> Subject: Re: [Xymon] DOWNTIME accross multiple days

The man page for hosts.cfg suggests that you can. It says that the DOWNTIME processing is the same as for NKTIME, and that for NKTIME the "interval between start time and end time may cross midnight". It says that "*:2330:0200" would be the same as "*:2330:2400,*:0000:0200".

J

I’m still having trouble getting my head around this, if I have this:

DOWNTIME=serbia:51:2300:0400:offline Planned downtime: Fri/Mon:2300:0400 (status:serbia) (cause:offline)

Is this:

1.   Down from 2300 on Friday to 0400 on Monday (spanning across Friday/Sat/Sun/Mon)

   Or

2.   Down on Friday/Sat from 2300 to 0400 AND mon/tues from 2300 to 0400

I might just need to test and see what happens I think.

Regards,

Brandon

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