Vacation / holiday? What's that?
But seriously. Since my Xymon server is a fully capable Linux box, my
hobbit-alerts.cfg sends emailto aliases defined in the /etc/aliases.
If/when someone wants messages disabled for vacation, I just change the
alias to send the message somewhere else. I like this method as it prevents
needing to make changes to my fairly complex/convoluted hobbit-alerts.cfg
file and an errant update to the hobbit-alerts.cfg could cause alerting to
not work.
I don't use a native SMS gateway and instead use the cell provider's email
to text/SMS gateway.
Robert Herron
user-8b27ea4290da@xymon.invalid
On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 2:30 PM, <user-d416b53ee243@xymon.invalid> wrote:
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From: "SebA" <user-7b2156f36779@xymon.invalid>
To: <xymon at xymon.com>
Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2010 19:30:18 +0100
Subject: How do *you* handle Xymon alerts when you are on vacation (holiday
in British English)?
Hi all,
I'm interested in the different ways that people handle alerts when they
are
on
vacation (holiday in British English)... I'm (still!) migrating from Big
Brother BTF (still mostly use that for alerts, Xymon for the rest), and if
I
went on vacation, I'd just put 1 line at the bottom of bb-alerts excluding
me
from all alerts (as they get SMSed to my mobile) and someone else would get
them (as I was never the only one to get them anyway). But you can't do
that
in Hobbit / Xymon (as I posted about last year).