Thanks for the advice. Those issues don't seem to apply here. The
definition is pretty straight forward:
10.10.1.155 formfusion # conn nopropred:msgs http://formfusion.ad.marist.edu
downtime=*:0050:0115:"Regular service restart"
The history should show it going blue from 00:50 to 01:15 each night, but
it doesn't. Alerts periodically get generated too.
I did check it with hobbitd_alert as you suggested. Without the time option,
it shows a match. When I use the time option, i.e. --time 1245373200
there is no match. That suggests to me that we should never get an alert
during that time. Yet we do, 2 or 3 times a week. Nearly always at 1:05.
Martha
On Thu, 18 Jun 2009 17:25:47 +0200 Dominique Frise said:Martha McConaghy wrote:
We're running the 4.3.0.0-beta2 level of Xymon, but saw this problem with
the previous beta level too. The downtime option in bb-hosts does not seem
to work for servers that are running a Xymon client. No matter how you set
it (i.e. what days or times), the tests never go blue. It does show up as
planned downtime when you display the "Info" about the server, but it never
actually happens. (Consequently, alerts are generated during the outage
time.)
The downtime option works fine for servers that are not running a client,
though.
Has anyone else seen this? I suspect this is a bug. Any ideas how to
work around it?
Martha McConaghy
Marist College IT
From our experience there are two issues with DOWNTIME
1) The doc. in bb-hosts(5) should be:
DOWNTIME=[columns:]day:starttime:endtime:cause[,[columns:]day:starttime:endtime
2) The info column does not reflect a proper DOWNTIME configuration.
Example:
A valid and working configuration like
"DOWNTIME=ldap:1:0729:0734:Restart" will be shown as "Planned downtime:
ldap:1:0729:0734:Restart" on the info page (the 1 is not decoded as Monday).
See also http://www.hswn.dk/hobbiton/2009/04/msg00301.html
You can check your DOWNTIME settings with hobbitd_alert(8) --test HOST
SERVICE [options]
Dominique