While looking at an answer for Tom Schmitt, I opted test by disabling "ALL" on a couple of my own systems for a minute.

When the scheduled "disable" (i.e. maintenance mode) tasks ran, xymon threw a yellow alarm for xymond with the following:

Latest error messages:

Ran scheduled task 2 from XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX: disable host1,my-domain,org.* 1

Disabled by: me @ ###.###.###.###

Reason: Testing

Ran scheduled task 1 from XXX.XXX.XXX.YYY: disable host2,my-domain,org.* 1

Disabled by: me @ ###.###.###.###

Reason: Testing

I'm trying to figure out:

a) Is this the correct behavior? It seems to me that if you put a system (or systems) into maintenance, an error state should not be reported...especially on a scheduled task.

b) Why is the error state showing up on the xymon server's xymond indicator?

c) This may be more my preference than the majority. When the systems come back from maintenance, if the various monitor statuses haven't changed since the pre-maintenance period, wouldn't it be better to have those status indicators reflect that the actual status is the same as previously indicated (i.e. if disk, memory, msgs, ports, etc all reflected normal for more than 24 hours...dark green if you're using the LED theme, for example...my feeling is that unless there is actually an alarm for those monitors, they should return to the previous state, rather than a state indicating a recent ( < 24hr) change.

Thanks.

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