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problem with setting time window for alerts

list Mike Burger
Mon, 18 Mar 2013 11:50:18 -0400 (EDT)
Message-Id: <user-bbf8358bd863@xymon.invalid>

-- 
Mike Burger
http://www.bubbanfriends.org

"It's always suicide-mission this, save-the-planet that. No one ever just
stops by to say 'hi' anymore." --Colonel Jack O'Neill, SG1

I'm apparently doing something extremely wrong trying to set a time window
for alerts for a specific server. This server burns up cpu every night and
we don't want to see alarms for it, so I tried doing this to block those
alarms in my hosts.cfg file -

IP   servername # conn NKTIME=*:0800:2200

I thought this was working but all of a sudden this weekend we got a ton
of alarms from it again during the night.
Hi, Elizabeth.

Try this, instead:

DOWNTIME=cpu:*:hhmm:hhmm:"Reason"

I use this for the backups on my servers, as the CPU spikes during those
operations. Instead of a yellow or red, during those timeframes, it shows
blue and does not send out alerts.