Okay, I know this is going to be an easy answer, but I'm trying to setup a multiple downtime window for one of my services, but I can't seem to have it kick in.
two questions: 1 If a service is already down, when you change bb-hosts for the downtime window, will it turn red->blue? 2 What, if anything, is wrong with this statement? DOWNTIME=cam:60:0000:2400,*:1930:0830
My goal is to ignore it from 730p to 830a daily and all day saturday and sunday
The info page shows: cam:60:0000:2400, All days:1930:0830 under the planned downtime.
Thanks! --Pat
Does anyone have some insight into this?
From the documentation it appears that the syntax I have should work correctly, but it's not.
DOWNTIME=cam:60:0000:2400,cam:W:1930:0830
hobbitd is giving the error message: Latest errormessages: Bad timespec (missing colon or no starttime): W
Thanks! --Pat
On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 11:38 AM, Patrick Nixon <pnixon at gmail.com> wrote:
Okay, I know this is going to be an easy answer, but I'm trying to setup a multiple downtime window for one of my services, but I can't seem to have it kick in.
two questions: 1 If a service is already down, when you change bb-hosts for the downtime window, will it turn red->blue? 2 What, if anything, is wrong with this statement? DOWNTIME=cam:60:0000:2400,*:1930:0830
My goal is to ignore it from 730p to 830a daily and all day saturday and sunday
The info page shows: cam:60:0000:2400, All days:1930:0830 under the planned downtime.
Thanks! --Pat
Patrick Nixon wrote:
Does anyone have some insight into this?
From the documentation it appears that the syntax I have should work correctly, but it's not.
DOWNTIME=cam:60:0000:2400,cam:W:1930:0830
hobbitd is giving the error message: Latest errormessages: Bad timespec (missing colon or no starttime): W
Thanks! --Pat
On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 11:38 AM, Patrick Nixon <pnixon at gmail.com> wrote:
Okay, I know this is going to be an easy answer, but I'm trying to setup a multiple downtime window for one of my services, but I can't seem to have it kick in.
two questions: 1 If a service is already down, when you change bb-hosts for the downtime window, will it turn red->blue? 2 What, if anything, is wrong with this statement? DOWNTIME=cam:60:0000:2400,*:1930:0830
My goal is to ignore it from 730p to 830a daily and all day saturday and sunday
The info page shows: cam:60:0000:2400, All days:1930:0830 under the planned downtime.
Thanks! --Pat
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There seem to be something broken with the DOWNTIME setting (running 4.2.0 with allinone-patch).
I reported similar issue long time ago:
http://www.hobbitmon.com/hobbiton/2006/12/msg00240.html http://www.hswn.dk/hobbiton/2008/05/msg00042.html
Dominique
In <c6fda93d0810081647i690dab2bgc960bb3d8ff3c270 at mail.gmail.com> "Patrick Nixon" <pnixon at gmail.com> writes:
Does anyone have some insight into this?
From the documentation it appears that the syntax I have should work correctly, but it's not.
DOWNTIME=cam:60:0000:2400,cam:W:1930:0830
hobbitd is giving the error message: Latest errormessages: Bad timespec (missing colon or no starttime): W
Try adding a "cause" text to the entries. Like
DOWNTIME=cam:60:0000:2400:Backups,cam:W:1930:0830:Offline
Henrik
Just for the record regarding Multiple Downtimes
The final syntax which henrik provided worked.
I'm a little baffled as to why the quoted multiword Cause didn't work, but it's working now
--Pat
On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 1:47 AM, Henrik Stoerner <henrik at hswn.dk> wrote:
In <c6fda93d0810081647i690dab2bgc960bb3d8ff3c270 at mail.gmail.com> "Patrick Nixon" <pnixon at gmail.com> writes:
Does anyone have some insight into this?
From the documentation it appears that the syntax I have should work correctly, but it's not.
DOWNTIME=cam:60:0000:2400,cam:W:1930:0830
hobbitd is giving the error message: Latest errormessages: Bad timespec (missing colon or no starttime): W
Try adding a "cause" text to the entries. Like
DOWNTIME=cam:60:0000:2400:Backups,cam:W:1930:0830:Offline
Henrik
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Patrick Nixon <mailto:pnixon at gmail.com> wrote:
Just for the record regarding Multiple Downtimes
The final syntax which henrik provided worked.
I'm a little baffled as to why the quoted multiword Cause didn't work, but it's working now
--Pat
On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 1:47 AM, Henrik Stoerner <henrik at hswn.dk> wrote:
In <c6fda93d0810081647i690dab2bgc960bb3d8ff3c270 at mail.gmail.com> "Patrick Nixon" <pnixon at gmail.com> writes:
Does anyone have some insight into this?
From the documentation it appears that the syntax I have should work correctly, but it's not.
DOWNTIME=cam:60:0000:2400,cam:W:1930:0830
hobbitd is giving the error message: Latest errormessages: Bad timespec (missing colon or no starttime): W
Try adding a "cause" text to the entries. Like
DOWNTIME=cam:60:0000:2400:Backups,cam:W:1930:0830:Offline
Henrik
Perhaps the documentation can be changed for DOWNTIME? This is the 3rd time this year this question has come up on this mailing list, and I bet there are many more times where people have either figured it out themselves or found the solution from the mailing list archives (like me just now). The documentation is misleading as it suggests that a cause is not optional in the initial syntax and then it states that it is optional further down the page (from http://hobbitmon.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/hobbitmon/trunk/common/bb-hosts. 5?view=markup):
289 .IP DOWNTIME=[columns:]day:starttime:endtime:cause[,day:starttime:endtime:cause] 290 This tag can be used to ignore failed checks during 291 specific times of the day - e.g. if you run services that 292 are only monitored e.g. Mon-Fri 8am-5pm, or you always 293 reboot a server every Monday between 5 and 6 pm. 294 ... 321 The "columns" setting is optional - it may be a comma-separated 322 list of status columns in which case the DOWNTIME setting only applies 323 to these columns. 324 325 The "cause" string (optional) is a text that will be displayed on 326 the status web page to explain thy the system is down.
If it is necessary to specify "columns" when specifying "cause" (and apparently it is) it should say so. It should also say that you can use "*" for "columns" if you want all of them. And it should say that you should use double quotes around a cause that contains spaces.
Many thanks,
SebA
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dominique.frise＠unil.ch
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henrik＠hswn.dk
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pnixon＠gmail.com
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spa＠syntec.co.uk