Thanks for the advice. Those issues don't seem to apply here. The definition is pretty straight forward:

10.10.1.155 formfusion # conn nopropred:msgs http://formfusion.ad.marist.edu downtime=*:0050:0115:"Regular service restart"

The history should show it going blue from 00:50 to 01:15 each night, but it doesn't. Alerts periodically get generated too.

I did check it with hobbitd_alert as you suggested. Without the time option, it shows a match. When I use the time option, i.e. --time 1245373200 there is no match. That suggests to me that we should never get an alert during that time. Yet we do, 2 or 3 times a week. Nearly always at 1:05.

Martha

On Thu, 18 Jun 2009 17:25:47 +0200 Dominique Frise said:

Martha McConaghy wrote:

...

We're running the 4.3.0.0-beta2 level of Xymon, but saw this problem with the previous beta level too. The downtime option in bb-hosts does not seem to work for servers that are running a Xymon client. No matter how you set it (i.e. what days or times), the tests never go blue. It does show up as planned downtime when you display the "Info" about the server, but it never actually happens. (Consequently, alerts are generated during the outage time.)

The downtime option works fine for servers that are not running a client, though.

Has anyone else seen this? I suspect this is a bug. Any ideas how to work around it?

Martha McConaghy Marist College IT

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From our experience there are two issues with DOWNTIME

1. The doc. in bb-hosts(5) should be:

DOWNTIME=[columns:]day:starttime:endtime:cause[,[columns:]day:starttime:endtime

2. The info column does not reflect a proper DOWNTIME configuration.

Example: A valid and working configuration like "DOWNTIME=ldap:1:0729:0734:Restart" will be shown as "Planned downtime: ldap:1:0729:0734:Restart" on the info page (the 1 is not decoded as Monday).

See also http://www.hswn.dk/hobbiton/2009/04/msg00301.html

You can check your DOWNTIME settings with hobbitd_alert(8) --test HOST SERVICE [options]

Dominique

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I think the info page parses the downtime tags in the wrong way. My tags are formatted like column:day:start:end:comment, and that works, but the info page parses them like day:column:start:end:comment But the conclusion I came to is that you need both the column and day fields to get it working.

/Johan

-----Original Message----- From: Andreas Kunberger [mailto:andreas.kunberger at itv-denkendorf.de] Sent: den 19 juni 2009 08:09 To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] Faulty downtime

Martha McConaghy schrieb:

Thanks for the advice. Those issues don't seem to apply here. The definition is pretty straight forward:

10.10.1.155 formfusion # conn nopropred:msgs http://formfusion.ad.marist.edu downtime=*:0050:0115:"Regular service restart"

My downtime tags look like DOWNTIME=*:*:0030:0300:backup and they are working with xymon 4.2.3

mfg Andreas

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