Vacation / holiday? What's that?

But seriously. Since my Xymon server is a fully capable Linux box, my hobbit-alerts.cfg sends emailto aliases defined in the /etc/aliases. If/when someone wants messages disabled for vacation, I just change the alias to send the message somewhere else. I like this method as it prevents needing to make changes to my fairly complex/convoluted hobbit-alerts.cfg file and an errant update to the hobbit-alerts.cfg could cause alerting to not work.

I don't use a native SMS gateway and instead use the cell provider's email to text/SMS gateway.

Robert Herron robert.herron at gmail.com

On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 2:30 PM, <xymon-digest-help at xymon.com> wrote:

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "SebA" <spa at syntec.co.uk> To: <xymon at xymon.com> Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2010 19:30:18 +0100 Subject: How do *you* handle Xymon alerts when you are on vacation (holiday in British English)? Hi all,

I'm interested in the different ways that people handle alerts when they are on vacation (holiday in British English)... I'm (still!) migrating from Big Brother BTF (still mostly use that for alerts, Xymon for the rest), and if I

went on vacation, I'd just put 1 line at the bottom of bb-alerts excluding me from all alerts (as they get SMSed to my mobile) and someone else would get them (as I was never the only one to get them anyway). But you can't do that in Hobbit / Xymon (as I posted about last year).