We do this also.
The most important benefit for us is that people who are doing planned work
during our regular maintenance interval can watch Xymon to see what's
impacted as they work.
On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 10:19 AM, Root, Paul T <user-76fdb6883669@xymon.invalid>
wrote:
I do a similar thing. If we have a xymon storm, like if we lose a WAN link
to a major part of our network, we will change the alias of who receives
the email to 'nobody'.
That way, there is still the paper trail of notifications, but the inbox
doesn't get hammered.
-----Original Message-----
From: Xymon [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Becker Christian
Sent: Friday, October 23, 2015 1:34 AM
To: 'Eli'
Cc: xymon
Subject: Re: [Xymon] Xymon maintaienance
Hello,
we do this that way, that using a script in cron, at a certain time we
copy alerts.cfg to alerts.cfg.work and copy an empty alerts.cfg.empty to
alerts.cfg.
If the file alerts.cfg is empty, there's no reason for Xymon to do any
alerting.
After this certain time, we copy the original file alerts.cfg back in
place.
For my opinion this is a bit easier to do than writing a DOWNTIME
statement to all of your nodes that are configured in hosts.cfg
Regards
Christian
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-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
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Gesendet: Freitag, 23. Oktober 2015 03:53
An: xymon at xymon.com
Betreff: [Xymon] Xymon maintaienance
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