Is there a way to "quietly" disable hosts that have NOTICE set?

we have put in the following because every night we have batch jobs that run that use almost all the processor power in our server:

SERVICE=cpu
MAIL [e-mail address] COLOR=red DURATION=15 TIME=*:0900:1700 HOST=[hostname]

by changing the TIME field to suit you, you will not get paiged, you just have to put an EXHOST=[hostname] in your normal alert rules.

Adam

From: Charles Jones
Sent: Monday, September 25, 2006 7:12 AM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: Re: [hobbit] Is there a way to "quietly" disable hosts that have NOTICE set?

That sends out NOTICE alerts though. If you are on call, do you want to
get paged at 3am every night when those services are put into MAINT
mode? Thats why I asked if there was a way to do a "silent" disable. I
basically need something that works exactly like the DOWNTIME option in
bb-hosts, except interactively.

-Charles

Francesco Duranti wrote:

Directly from the man bb command :D


       disable HOSTNAME.TESTNAME DURATION <additional text>
              Disables  a  specific  test  for  DURATION minutes. This
will cause the status of this test to be listed as
              "blue" on the BBDISPLAY server, and no alerts for this
host/test will be generated. If DURATION is given as
              a  number  followed by s/m/h/d, it is interpreted as being
in seconds/minutes/hours/days respectively.   To
              disable all tests for a host, use an asterisk "*" for
TESTNAME.

       enable HOSTNAME.TESTNAME
              Re-enables a test that had been disabled.


So you can execute bb hobbitserver "disable dbservername.* 2h Backup
time" before shutting down the database and bb hobbitserver "enable
dbserver.*" just at the end.

Francesco

-----Original Message-----
From: Charles Jones [mailto:user-e86b4aeade4e@xymon.invalid]
Sent: Monday, September 25, 2006 7:56 AM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: [hobbit] Is there a way to "quietly" disable hosts
that have NOTICE set?

I have the NOTICE flag set for all of my production hosts - I
want pages to go out if someone disables or enables any of them.

However, when backups are done, the oracle databases are
brought down, which triggers an alert. If they are manually
disabled, the NOTICE message goes out which also wakes people
up for no reason.

If I use DOWNTIME in bb-hosts, then I have to specify a
window which is guaranteed to be longer than the possible
time it could take to backup the databases (which is a
dynamic thing which will surely be wrong from time to time).
So what ends up happening is for example, I would specify an
hour of DOWNTIME, but the backups sometimes only take 30 minutes.
That means there is a 30 minute window where a real alert
would be masked, which is unacceptable in a production environment.

I guess what I'm looking for, is a way that I can send a
commands to Hobbit via a shellscript (called from the db
backup script), that would put a host/services in maint mode
(disabled - blue dot), and NOT send a NOTICE page.

-Charles