I just put this is yesterday and tested. It seemed to work.

192.168.xx.xx hostname # DOWNTIME=*:0100:0535

I tried putting a tag at the end. In quotes, not in quotes ect. It did not work. Adding

the proc modifier seemed to work. We took it off as procs was the only thing we had this

host.

Hope this helps

Mark Chastain

-----Original Message----- From: Eric Meddaugh [mailto:etmsys at rit.edu] Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2006 11:11 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: [hobbit] Re: DOWNTIME tag question

Just wondering if anyone had more experience with the DOWNTIME tag.

I'm just starting to use Hobbit for monitoring. The DOWNTIME tag I have a question with. I had this:

129.21.35.49 sc3oracle02 # ssh oracle:COBDPROD DOWNTIME=*:0244:0546:Backups COMMENT:"<font size=-1>cobddb</font>

The Database went down at 2:45am, however things went Red. I see this in the hobbitd.log:

2006-09-28 02:44:33 Invalid timespec - expected 4 digits, got: 'Backups'

2006-09-28 02:44:37 Invalid timespec - expected 4 digits, got: 'Backups'

2006-09-28 02:44:41 Invalid timespec - expected 4 digits, got: 'Backups'

2006-09-28 02:44:41 Invalid timespec - expected 4 digits, got: 'Backups'

2006-09-28 02:44:46 Invalid timespec - expected 4 digits, got: 'Backups'

2006-09-28 02:44:47 Invalid timespec - expected 4 digits, got: 'Backups'

2006-09-28 02:44:49 Invalid timespec - expected 4 digits, got: 'Backups'

2006-09-28 02:44:49 Invalid timespec - expected 4 digits, got: 'Backups'

So I thought maybe it was Backups was not quoted, so I changed it to:

129.21.35.49 sc3oracle02 # ssh oracle:COBDPROD DOWNTIME=*:0244:0546:"Backups" COMMENT:"<font size=-1>cobddb</font>

I then extended the Endtime and shutdown the DB, I still got this error:

2006-09-28 08:11:32 Invalid timespec - expected 4 digits, got: 'Backups'

However this time it appeared that it was blue and disabled.

My question is more of a clarification. I have not tried to put in DOWNTIME=oracle:*:0244:0546:"Backups"

Can someone clear up what is happening and how it should work?

Thanks.

---Eric

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