Planned downtime

Do you know about the notes directory??  Somewhere like
<xymonhome>/server/www/notes.  Drop a file in there called
"myserver.domain.com.html" and you'll get a link on the info page just under
the Hostname/OS/IP lines.  You'll also find that the hostname becomes a link
wherever it appears in the main or non-green pages.

Not as good as having it in the info page, but better than nothing.

Ralph Mitchell


On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 10:06 AM, Ryan Novosielski <user-ae4522577e16@xymon.invalid>wrote:

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Yes, that is what I currently do (I actually have some that are second
X-day of the month which are even more complicated), but it is a shame
that I now do not see the downtime information in the 'info' test. With
BB, no such test existed so it wasn't as big of a deal as everyone was
used to looking in cron.

On 1/5/2011 9:14 AM, Ralph Mitchell wrote:

On the other hand, you could use cron to schedule disablement of
services:

   0 0 * * * /home/xymon/server/bin/bb localhost "disable
server,domain,org.TEST 90 scheduled downtime"

would disable the TEST service on server.domain.org
<http://server.domain.org>; for 90 minutes, starting at midnight every
night.  Note that the  hostname elements are comma-separated, because
the dot marks the beginning of the test/service column name.  That's a
legacy of the old BB days...

See the "XYMON MESSAGE SYNTAX" section in the bb.1 man page for full
details.

Ralph Mitchell


On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 8:30 AM, Ryan Novosielski <user-ae4522577e16@xymon.invalid
<mailto:user-ae4522577e16@xymon.invalid>> wrote:

    With that said, DOWNTIME cannot do advanced scheduling which is I
    believe one of the very few shortcomings of Xymon. I have a lot of
    once-a-month maintenance. With Xymon, I believe the maximum time you
    can do between is weekly.

    -- Sent from my Palm Pre


    On Jan 5, 2011 7:49, Johan Sjöberg <user-74c177c1220d@xymon.invalid
    <mailto:user-74c177c1220d@xymon.invalid>> wrote:

    You can use enable/disable to schedule future disables of hosts and
    tests.

    You can also use the DOWNTIME setting in bb-hosts if it is a
    recurring downtime. See the manual.


    /Johan


    *From:* Leonardo Bozi [mailto:user-bb28df2d311e@xymon.invalid
    <mailto:user-bb28df2d311e@xymon.invalid>]
    *Sent:* den 5 januari 2011 13:37
    *To:* xymon at xymon.com <mailto:xymon at xymon.com>
    *Subject:* [xymon] Planned downtime


    Is there a manner to configure on Xymon 4.2.3 a planned downtime?

    And any news about Xymon 4.3.0 stable?

    Thanks in advance.


    Leonardo Bozi
    user-bb28df2d311e@xymon.invalid <mailto:user-bb28df2d311e@xymon.invalid>

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