Here's another solution....
Write a script to handle the paging for this server and service (oracle).
It checks to see if the backup is running, if so, don't page, if not, page.
--Pat
From: Charles Jones [mailto:user-e86b4aeade4e@xymon.invalid] Sent: Monday, September 25, 2006 1:22 PM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: Re: [hobbit] Is there a way to "quietly" disable hosts that have
NOTICE set?
If you are oncall, do you want to get woken up by the DISABLE notice alerts
every 5 mins at 3am (or even one of them)? :-)
Before you say "don't use NOTICE in hobbit-alerts.cfg then", consider that
when things are purposefully disabled for reasons other than scheduled
downtime, folks want to know about it.
-Charles
user-c102b8958c7a@xymon.invalid <mailto:user-c102b8958c7a@xymon.invalid> wrote:
Have your script disable it every five minutes or so until the backup is
done?
-----Original Message-----
From: Charles Jones [mailto:user-e86b4aeade4e@xymon.invalid <mailto:user-e86b4aeade4e@xymon.invalid> ]
Sent: Monday, September 25, 2006 1:03 PM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid <mailto:user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid>
Subject: Re: [hobbit] Is there a way to "quietly" disable hosts that have
NOTICE set?
Yep...I tried doing a disable for -1 (until OK), but if you do that while
the service is still green, it immediately recovers.
Ralph Mitchell wrote:
On 9/25/06, Charles Jones <mailto:user-e86b4aeade4e@xymon.invalid> <user-e86b4aeade4e@xymon.invalid>
wrote:
The DOWNTIME option in bb-hosts has the ability to set the status of
services blue without sending NOTICE alerts. I would like this same
ability on an interactive basis (via a message to hobbit using the bb
command).
So, essentially you need DOWNTIME to have something like the "until
green again" option that was added to the enable/disable page in 4.2,
right??
Unless I've completely missed your point, for which I apologise in
advance...:)
Ralph Mitchell