The statement I declared works beyond the shadow of a doubt - so I'm pretty sure we want to specify down, not up. What version of Hobbitmon/Xymon are you running?

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On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 12:34 PM, <MFisher at hra.com> wrote:

Josh,

In reponse to your post, I have tried specifying the time to be DOWN in the DOWNTIME synatx but that man page says just the opposite:

"E.g. to monitor a site 24x7, except between noon and 1 pm, use DOWNTIME=*:0000:1159,*:1300:2359"

This statement puts in the time the system should be UP not DOWN...

????

RESOLVED!

I do appologize for the non-sense but all of your configs are CORRECT. The MAN PAGE for bb-hosts does NOT reflect the correct syntax...

My issue WAS in fact with letting the bb-hosts file get re-generated before coming to a conclusion.

I have setup the BB-HOSTS with "DOWNTIME=*:1000:1100 and allowed up to 5 min to be re-generated. I then started the telnet service (should be down) and restarted the bbwin client and viola...page went blue with "Planned Downtime"

All is well and i appreciate all of your responses!!!

Much Thanks!

Not sure if this helps, but this is my line to ignore the service "cam" being red between 7:30pm to 8:30a and All Day Saturday and Sunday.

DOWNTIME=cam:60:0000:2400:Offline2,cam:W:1930:0830:Offline

On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 12:34 PM, <MFisher at hra.com> wrote:

Josh,

In reponse to your post, I have tried specifying the time to be DOWN in the DOWNTIME synatx but that man page says just the opposite:

"E.g. to monitor a site 24x7, except between noon and 1 pm, use DOWNTIME=*:0000:1159,*:1300:2359"

This statement puts in the time the system should be UP not DOWN...

????

On 2009-Apr-28, at 1:05 PM, MFisher at hra.com wrote:

I have just changed my BB-HOsts to reflect the following....I have a
suspision that my issue was with letting bb-hosts get regnerated
before i come to a conclusion of it not working..

BB-HOSTS entry = DOWNTIME=*:1000:1100

The information page shows the following

Planned downtime:All days:1000:1100

In my experience, the syntax that makes the information page look
correct is not the syntax that will actually work. I'm guessing the
code that parses the DOWNTIME option was duplicated in two places and
those two places are now out of sync.

-- Rob McBroom <http://www.skurfer.com/>

Patrick Nixon wrote:

I'd have to agree to that.

On my info page for the previously provided downtime, I have:

Planned Downtime: cam:60:0000:2400:Offline2, cam:W:1930:0830:Offline

Doesn't seem to be parsing it properly, but it does work appropriately.

On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 3:16 PM, Rob McBroom <mailinglist0 at skurfer.com> wrote:

...

On 2009-Apr-28, at 1:05 PM, MFisher at hra.com wrote:

...

I have just changed my BB-HOsts to reflect the following....I have a suspision that my issue was with letting bb-hosts get regnerated before i come to a conclusion of it not working..

BB-HOSTS entry = DOWNTIME=*:1000:1100

The information page shows the following

Planned downtime:All days:1000:1100

In my experience, the syntax that makes the information page look correct is not the syntax that will actually work. I'm guessing the code that parses the DOWNTIME option was duplicated in two places and those two places are now out of sync.

-- Rob McBroom <http://www.skurfer.com/>

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Yes, I also do agree with this! BTW, this was already spotted in http://www.hswn.dk/hobbiton/2008/05/msg00042.html

After digging into the code, I found 2 issues around the DOWNTIME behaviour.

1. Internal handling of DOWNTIME values do not reflect the specification of the bb-hosts(5) man page.

The man page says: DOWNTIME=[columns:]day:starttime:endtime:cause[,day:starttime:endtime:cause]

But the check_downtime function code in lib/timefunc.c says: ---- extract of ./lib/timefunc.c ---- ... 303 do { 304 /* Its either DAYS:START:END or SERVICE:DAYS:START:END:CAUSE */ 305 306 s1 = p; p += strcspn(p, ":"); if (*p != '\0') { *p = '\0'; p++; } 307 s2 = p; p += strcspn(p, ":"); if (*p != '\0') { *p = '\0'; p++; } ...

According to this, the man page should say: DOWNTIME=day:starttime:endtime:[,day:starttime:endtime] OR DOWNTIME=columns:day:starttime:endtime:cause[,columns,day:starttime:endtime:cause]

2. The "Planned Downtime" line displayed in info column do not honor the optional "columns" tag at all. The generate_info function in ./web/hobbitsvc-info.c calls the timespec_text function that handles day:starttime:endtime values only. (like REPORTTIME).

------------- extract of /web/hobbitsvc-info.c--------- 871 val = bbh_item(hostwalk, BBH_DOWNTIME); 872 if (val) { 873 char *s = timespec_text(val); 874 addtobuffer(infobuf, "<tr><th align=left>Planned downtime:</th><td align=left>"); 875 addtobuffer(infobuf, s); 876 addtobuffer(infobuf, "</td></tr>\n"); 877 }

There is no quick hacks to solve both problems :-( I think only the boss -Henrik- can make the appropriate redesign/changes.

Dominique

DOWNTIME=60:*:*,W:1800:0759

60 declaring Saturday and Sunday (last, first days of the week) separator all time separator all time

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On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 1:03 PM, Malcolm Hunter <malcolm.hunter at gmx.co.uk>wrote:

...

In reponse to your post, I have tried specifying the time to be DOWN in the DOWNTIME synatx but that man page says just the opposite:

"E.g. to monitor a site 24x7, except between noon and 1 pm, use DOWNTIME=*:0000:1159,*:1300:2359"

This statement puts in the time the system should be UP not DOWN...

Silly question, I assume but you are putting DOWNTIME on the host line?

e.g.

10.0.0.2 hostname # conn DOWNTIME=*:0200:0229

For my setup I only want working hours:

10.0.0.2 hostname # conn DOWNTIME=60:*:*,W:1800:0759

This excludes weekends and evenings (and works perfectly).

Regards, Malcolm

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