If you need more info let me know.
From the help file:
The first line defines a rule for alerting when something breaks on
the host "www.foo.com".
There are two recipients: user-b7c20e0da76a@xymon.invalid is notified if it is the
"http" service that fails, and the notification is repeated once an
hour until the problem is resolved.
user-09a89c618369@xymon.invalid is notified if it is the "cpu", "disk" or "memory"
tests that report a failure. Since there is no "REPEAT" setting for
this recipient, the default is used which is to repeat the alert every
30 minutes.
OK, suppose now that the webmaster complains about getting e-mails at
4 AM in the morning. The webserver is not supposed to be running
between 9 PM and 8 AM, so even though there is a problem, he doesn't
want to hear about it until 7:30 - that gives him just enough time to
fix the problem. So you must modify the rule so that it doesn't send
out alerts until 7:30 AM:
HOST=www.foo.com
MAIL user-b7c20e0da76a@xymon.invalid SERVICE=http REPEAT=1h TIME=*:0730:2100
MAIL user-09a89c618369@xymon.invalid SERVICE=cpu,disk,memory
Adding the TIME setting on the recipient causes the alerts for this
recipient to be suppressed, unless the time of day is within the
interval. So with this setup, the webmaster gets his sleep.
What would have happened if you put the TIME setting on the rule
instead of on the recipient ? Like this:
HOST=www.foo.com TIME=*:0730:2100
MAIL user-b7c20e0da76a@xymon.invalid SERVICE=http REPEAT=1h
MAIL user-09a89c618369@xymon.invalid SERVICE=cpu,disk,memory
Well, the webmaster would still have his nights to himself - but the
TIME setting would then also apply to the alerts that go out when
there is a problem with the "cpu", "disk" or "memory" services. So
there would not be any mails going to user-09a89c618369@xymon.invalid when a disk
fills up during the night.
On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 11:40:00 +1100, ZanDAhaR <user-42a3456c44ef@xymon.invalid> wrote:
Just something else I forgot to mention, we want to send everything to
email
such as msgs disk http conn etc, but not send disk, cpu, msgs to the
pager
email address
----- Original Message -----
From: "ZanDAhaR" <user-42a3456c44ef@xymon.invalid>
To: <user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid>
Sent: Friday, March 11, 2005 11:35 AM
Subject: [hobbit] Excluding Hosts from Paging at certain times
Hi there,
Not sure if this is the right place to be sending this as I've only
just
subscribed and the emails dont quite say exactly where to email but
here
goes.
We have just upgraded from bb after 5 years or so to hobbit and we're
not
looking back. We have some servers that have to be rebooted on a daily
basis
due to some of the poorly written software (not by us) that runs on
them.
I
have tred using the DOWNTIME= option on the BB hosts but it only seems
to
ignore the net tests like http, conn etc. The server still has the bb
client
installed on it so when the server comes back up the bb client starts
before
some of the monitored services start and therefore marks them red and
we
get
paged on them.
Given our worldwide customer base we still want to know about the
issues
24x7 except for the 10 mins or so when it reboots. BB used to have the
option of putting in something like !host:time:email and it wouldnt
page
at
that particular time for that hosts. Just wondering if someone can
suggest
the best way to work around this.
We have one alert that goes out via email and then to sortof a mailing
list,
and then another line that does email-to-pager. I was thinking
something
along the lines of what I have below although I am not sure about the