Command-line scheduled disable 🔗 link

Hi Henrik

would it possible to schedule a disable using the command-line ?

Something like

$BB $BBDISP "disable $MACHINE.$TEST $DURATION $START_OF_DISABLE"

Thanks in advance.

Regards,

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Frédéric Mangeant

Steria EDC Sophia-Antipolis

Frédéric Mangeant wrote:

If its on a schedule why dont you use the DOWNTIME flags in the hosts file ? Can't remember if this stops it from alerting though but ive covered it anyway by putting in a time for a box for example that restarts every sunday at 10am the line reads like host=xyz.host.com mail=user-a58b67019283@xymon.invalid time=*:1045:1000 so it will alert at all times between 1045 and 1000 which is kinda wacked but its the only way I figured out how to stop it :)

HTH

Allan

On Thu, Nov 24, 2005 at 02:48:44PM +0100, Frédéric Mangeant wrote:

There's a generic "schedule" command in the Hobbit protocol to do that.
You can put a "schedule TIMESTAMP" in front of any command and Hobbit
will execute that command at the requested time. TIMESTAMP is a Unix
epoch time (seconds since Jan 1 1970). So your command would be:

STARTTIME=`date +%s --date="$START_OF_DISABLE"`
$BB $BBDISP "schedule $STARTTIME disable $MACHINE.$TEST $DURATION"

That is in fact how the scheduled enable/disable works when you 
use it via the Web GUI.


Henrik

I wondered if there is a way to schedule, for example, that a monitor will go disable last Sunday in every month.
My DB that is going down for cold backup and sometimes I forget to schedule the monitor disable so I have the support waking me up in the middle of the night :=)
Thanks,
Alon  

-----Original Message-----
From: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:user-ce4a2c883f75@xymon.invalid] 
Sent: Friday, November 25, 2005 12:34 AM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: Re: [hobbit] Command-line scheduled disable

On Thu, Nov 24, 2005 at 02:48:44PM +0100, Frédéric Mangeant wrote:

There's a generic "schedule" command in the Hobbit protocol to do that.
You can put a "schedule TIMESTAMP" in front of any command and Hobbit will execute that command at the requested time. TIMESTAMP is a Unix epoch time (seconds since Jan 1 1970). So your command would be:

STARTTIME=`date +%s --date="$START_OF_DISABLE"` $BB $BBDISP "schedule $STARTTIME disable $MACHINE.$TEST $DURATION"

That is in fact how the scheduled enable/disable works when you use it via the Web GUI.


Henrik

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Henrik,

Speaking of this, I'm using the DOWNTIME feature in bb-hosts to schedule certain hosts to be in maint mode during certain times. One problem though is there is no way to put a reason so that when people click on it in the GUI they can see that it is a scheduled disable.  Also DOWNTIME disabled the entire host, it would be nice to be able to specify by service. What would be really cool would be:

DOWNTIME=service:day:startime:endtime:reason

Then you could have a host with for example:

somehost.com 1.2.3.4 # ssh cpu disk msgs DOWNTIME=http,msgs:*:0600:0800:"Scheduled Apache Maintenance"

Currently we can "sort of" get this functionality with the IGNORE option, but when using IGNORE although alerts are not sent out, the host/service still turns red on the display which might worry someone looking at it (Maybe IGNORE should be called NOALERT)

Just some ideas :-)

-Charles