Recommendation on setting regular maintenance exclusion for reporting

That worked like a charm.  I had not used that spec before but that was
exactly what I was looking for.

Thanks for the suggestion.

-Jason 
-----Original Message-----
From: Alan Sparks [mailto:user-8f2174fd8b66@xymon.invalid] Sent: Friday, November 21, 2008 7:28 PM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: Re: [hobbit] Recommendation on setting regular maintenance
exclusion for reporting

Can't you just use the DOWNTIME specification in bb-hosts for those clients?
-Alan

Jason Hand wrote:

These are a variety of monitored entities including windows machines and web sites.

How would that work as you describe?  Do I just substitute the days, "yourhobbitserver" with the name or localhost, "yourhobbitclient" with the hostname of the client to disable, "60" with number of minutes to disable it, and then the "Scheduled reboot" would be the cause?

And this cron job would run on the Hobbit server right?

Thanks ,
Jason

-----Original Message-----
From: Ulric Eriksson [mailto:user-de31148ebe0c@xymon.invalid]
Sent: Friday, November 21, 2008 6:58 PM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: Re: [hobbit] Recommendation on setting regular maintenance exclusion for reporting


On Fri, 21 Nov 2008, Jason Hand wrote:

  

I am just looking for what you think is the best way to exclude a few clients from reporting problems during regular 3-time a week maintenance periods where these are naturally going to be off or not
    

reporting.
  

How would I set that in the best way?
    

Set up a cron job to disable them at those times.

0 1 * * mon,wed,fri /home/hobbit/server/bin/bb yourhobbitserver "disable yourhobbitclient 60 Scheduled reboot"


Ulric


11/21/2008
9:37 AM

9:37 AM