While on the subject of feature wishlists, how about this one?
We have servers with file systems on them that are completely user-land.
The OS and related stuff is all our responsibility, and we look after
it, but the apps file systems are looked after by the users.
If it fills up and the apps choke, it's not our issue. If the OS chokes, it becomes our problem.
We want OS file system disk alerts, but don't give a rat's about the
user-land stuff.
The users want alert on the user application file systems, but neither
care, nor do they need to know, about the OS file systems.
Currenly, all alerts are of the form
HOST=hostname SERVICE=service
MAIL user-2678e9aecb95@xymon.invalid
And all disk alerts go to that person.
We can set up multiple people, but all disk alerts go to all.
How about a way of splitting that, so we have
HOST=appserver SERVICE=disk
/apps/vol1 MAIL user-18b8c29f8e77@xymon.invalid
/apps/vol2 MAIL user-18b8c29f8e77@xymon.invalid
/usr MAIL user-9fcad6e0c028@xymon.invalid / MAIL user-9fcad6e0c028@xymon.invalid
Or even
HOST=appserver SERVICE=disk:/apps/vol1
MAIL user-18b8c29f8e77@xymon.invalid
HOST=appserver SERVICE=disk:/apps/vol2
MAIL user-18b8c29f8e77@xymon.invalid
HOST=appserver SERVICE=disk:/
MAIL user-9fcad6e0c028@xymon.invalid
HOST=appserver SERVICE=disk:/usr
MAIL user-9fcad6e0c028@xymon.invalid
Something like that could be useful.
Regards
Vernon
-----Original Message-----
From: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:user-ce4a2c883f75@xymon.invalid] Sent: Thursday, 3 January 2008 3:30 PM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: Re: [hobbit] Hobbit downtime stats
On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 10:52:07AM +0900, Everett, Vernon wrote: Hobbit has a beautiful facility to calculate uptime stats.
But PHBs, being what they are, want more.
Is there a way to flag an outage as "scheduled" or similar, and not include it in the uptime stats calculation?
There is, but you have to do it in advance: By disabling the host or
status that is planned to be down.
It would be good to be able to flag the scheduled outage as "not a real outage" after the fact, because during the outage, we use Hobbit to keep tabs on what goes down and comes up and when.
I know, I've had the same request from my own users.
Henrik
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