DOWNTIME is want you want, the client is automagically placed into maintenance mode (blue) for the time period specified. Other users of the hobbit system can see the downtime configuration via a web browser (ie. if you've got a noc team watching the display). Ignore is not needed in this configuration, only the hosts entry.

Example:

From the hosts file: 1.1.1.1 servername # "DOWNTIME=*:*:2200:0730:Nightly Reboot"

Displayed on the 'info' page for the host above. Planned downtime: All days:*:2200:0730:Nightly Reboot

This works well for us, using hobbit-4.2.0.

Good luck,

Tim

Brand, Thomas R. wrote:

#man hobbit-clients TIME=timespecification Rule matching an alert by the time-of-day. This is specified as the DOWNTIME timespecification in the bb-hosts file.

#man bb-hosts /DOWNTIME The syntax for DOWNTIME is the same as the one used by the NKTIME parameter.

/NKTIME NKTIME=day:starttime:endtime[,day:starttime:endtime] day-of-week: W means Mon-Fri ("weekdays"), * means all days, 0 .. 6 = Sunday .. Saturday. Listing multiple days is possible, e.g. "60" is valid meaning "Saturday and Sunday"

Days are 0-6, Sunday thru Saturday....

:)

Cheers Tom

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-----Original Message----- From: Lee Imber [mailto:ljimber at gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 29, 2009 4:44 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: [hobbit] hobbit_alerts.cfg IGNORE TIME

Greetings all,

I have been trying to figure this out and I think I am missing something real obvious.

I am trying to ignore an event when a series of servers do some backups and the http test gets triggered for a second Sunday Morning at 3:35AM or 0835UTC.

Here is the rule in hobbit-alerts.cfg

HOST=S1,S2,S3,S4 COLOR=red SERVICE=http IGNORE HOST=S1,S2,S3,S4 SERVICE=http TIME=7:0830:0845

But I get still get paged.

Here is what I get when I run:

./bin/bbcmd hobbitd_alert --test S1 http

00052836 2009-12-29 18:02:45 Matching host:service:page 'S1:http:' against rule line 81 2009-12-29 18:02:45 Bad timespec (missing colon or wrong weekdays): 7:0830:0845 00052836 2009-12-29 18:02:45 Failed 'IGNORE HOST=S1,S2,S3,S4 SERVICE=http TIME=7:0830:0845' (time criteria)

In the hobbit manual there is an example that shows a similar rule set for Thursday using day 4:0000:0000 so I believe Sunday should be day 7? If I change the day to 6 I don't get that error in the --test output.

Thanks and HNY!

I have been trying to figure this out and I think I am missing something real obvious.

I am trying to ignore an event when a series of servers do some backups and the http test gets triggered for a second Sunday Morning at 3:35AM or 0835UTC.

Here is the rule in hobbit-alerts.cfg

HOST=S1,S2,S3,S4 COLOR=red SERVICE=http IGNORE HOST=S1,S2,S3,S4 SERVICE=http TIME=7:0830:0845

But I get still get paged.

Here is what I get when I run:

./bin/bbcmd hobbitd_alert --test S1 http

00052836 2009-12-29 18:02:45 Matching host:service:page 'S1:http:' against rule line 81 2009-12-29 18:02:45 Bad timespec (missing colon or wrong weekdays): 7:0830:0845 00052836 2009-12-29 18:02:45 Failed 'IGNORE HOST=S1,S2,S3,S4 SERVICE=http TIME=7:0830:0845' (time criteria)

In the hobbit manual there is an example that shows a similar rule set for Thursday using day 4:0000:0000 so I believe Sunday should be day 7? If I change the day to 6 I don't get that error in the --test output.

Thanks and HNY!

Lee J. Imber Systems Engineer Glance Networks 1167 Massachusetts Ave. Arlington, MA USA 02476 www.glance.net lee at glance.net To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk

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