BB-Hosts DOWNTIME 🔗 link

Hi all!

I am still to this day having issues getting the DOWNTIME parameters to
work. I have tried everything under the sun but ultimetely i have fallen
back to what is written in the BB-Hosts Man page..

DOWNTIME=*:0000:0200,*:0230:2359

This basically says that the host is DOWN between 2AM and
2:30AM......Correct?

Kind of an @ssbackwards way of looking at it but from what i can gather,
you just specify the time the server should be UP...right?

Its not working...i still get alerts and the page still stays red..not blue
as expected...

I have also tried

DOWNTIME=*:0200:0230

but as expected...that fails as well..

Anybody have any insight into this...im sure im missing something stupid...

THANKS!

I use DOWNTIME=*:0045:0630 REPORTTIME=*:0000:0045,*:0630:2359

 
HTH

Jeremy

 
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From: user-ab09d151b26b@xymon.invalid [mailto:user-ab09d151b26b@xymon.invalid] 
Sent: 28 April 2009 17:06
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: [hobbit] BB-Hosts DOWNTIME

 
Hi all!

I am still to this day having issues getting the DOWNTIME parameters to
work. I have tried everything under the sun but ultimetely i have fallen
back to what is written in the BB-Hosts Man page..

DOWNTIME=*:0000:0200,*:0230:2359

This basically says that the host is DOWN between 2AM and
2:30AM......Correct?

Kind of an @ssbackwards way of looking at it but from what i can gather,
you just specify the time the server should be UP...right?

Its not working...i still get alerts and the page still stays red..not
blue as expected...

I have also tried 

DOWNTIME=*:0200:0230 

but as expected...that fails as well..

Anybody have any insight into this...im sure im missing something
stupid...

THANKS!

This statement says we expect downtime between midnight and 11:59PM Sunday
(0th day of the week), then specifies the weekdays between 6:30PM and 7:30AM
(the following day) and gets as specific as Saturday (6th day of the week)
between 8:30AM and 11:59PM.

DOWNTIME=0:0000:2359,W:1830:0730,6:0830:2359

Confirmed working with 4.2.0 - no patches or updates

I think you want

DOWNTIME=*:0200:0230 - specifying all days of the week, between 2AM and
2:30AM we expect downtime.  Maybe you don't want an asterisk?

Josh Luthman
Office: XXX-XXX-XXXX
Direct: XXX-XXX-XXXX
XXXX Wayne St
Suite XXXX
Troy, OH XXXXX

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I have tried using the paramter:


DOWNTIME=*:0200:0230


But this still generates alerts between that time interval...the page also
stays red...

Josh,

In reponse to your post, I have tried specifying the time to be DOWN in the
DOWNTIME synatx but that man page says just the opposite:

"E.g. to monitor a site 24x7, except between noon and 1 pm, use
DOWNTIME=*:0000:1159,*:1300:2359"

This statement puts in the time the system should be UP not DOWN...

????

The statement I declared works beyond the shadow of a doubt - so I'm pretty
sure we want to specify down, not up.  What version of Hobbitmon/Xymon are
you running?

Josh Luthman
Office: XXX-XXX-XXXX
Direct: XXX-XXX-XXXX
XXXX Wayne St
Suite XXXX
Troy, OH XXXXX

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--- Henry Spencer

On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 12:34 PM, <user-ab09d151b26b@xymon.invalid> wrote:

Not sure if this helps, but this is my line to ignore the service
"cam" being red between 7:30pm to 8:30a and All Day Saturday and
Sunday.

DOWNTIME=cam:60:0000:2400:Offline2,cam:W:1930:0830:Offline

On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 12:34 PM,  <user-ab09d151b26b@xymon.invalid> wrote:

Josh,

That is bizarre...let me try again right now..i will specify the following
in my bb-hosts and allow up to 5 min for it to take and then test it out

DOWNTIME=*:1000:11:00

Should be down between 10AM and 11AM

....

Lemme try again

Silly question, I assume but you are putting DOWNTIME on the host line?

e.g.

10.0.0.2  hostname # conn DOWNTIME=*:0200:0229

For my setup I only want working hours:

10.0.0.2 hostname # conn DOWNTIME=60:*:*,W:1800:0759

This excludes weekends and evenings (and works perfectly).

Regards,
Malcolm


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I have just changed my BB-HOsts to reflect the following....I have a
suspision that my issue was with letting bb-hosts get regnerated before i
come to a conclusion of it not working..

BB-HOSTS entry =   DOWNTIME=*:1000:1100

The information page shows the following

Planned downtime:All days:1000:1100

---

I will give it another few min and try my test.

RESOLVED!

I do appologize for the non-sense but all of your configs are CORRECT. The
MAN PAGE for bb-hosts does NOT reflect the correct syntax...

My issue WAS in fact with letting the bb-hosts file get re-generated before
coming to a conclusion.

I have setup the BB-HOSTS with "DOWNTIME=*:1000:1100  and allowed up to 5
min to be re-generated. I then started the telnet service (should be down)
and restarted the bbwin client and viola...page went blue with "Planned
Downtime"

All is well and i appreciate all of your responses!!!

Much Thanks!

Seeing Patrick's statement reminded me that there was an issue with the
colon separator.  Can't recall what the resolution was, if any.

Josh Luthman
Office: XXX-XXX-XXXX
Direct: XXX-XXX-XXXX
XXXX Wayne St
Suite XXXX
Troy, OH XXXXX

Those who don't understand UNIX are condemned to reinvent it, poorly.
--- Henry Spencer

On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 1:01 PM, <user-ab09d151b26b@xymon.invalid> wrote:

 DOWNTIME=60:*:*,W:1800:0759

60 declaring Saturday and Sunday (last, first days of the week)
separator
all time
separator
all time

Josh Luthman
Office: XXX-XXX-XXXX
Direct: XXX-XXX-XXXX
XXXX Wayne St
Suite XXXX
Troy, OH XXXXX

Those who don't understand UNIX are condemned to reinvent it, poorly.
--- Henry Spencer

On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 1:03 PM, Malcolm Hunter <user-b3e590ffeb6d@xymon.invalid>wrote:

On 2009-Apr-28, at 1:05 PM, user-ab09d151b26b@xymon.invalid wrote:

In my experience, the syntax that makes the information page look  correct is not the syntax that will actually work. I'm guessing the  code that parses the DOWNTIME option was duplicated in two places and  those two places are now out of sync.

-- 
Rob McBroom
<http://www.skurfer.com/>;

I'd have to agree to that.

On my info page for the previously provided downtime, I have:

Planned Downtime: cam:60:0000:2400:Offline2, cam:W:1930:0830:Offline

Doesn't seem to be parsing it properly, but it does work appropriately.

On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 3:16 PM, Rob McBroom <user-371ba9bb5b75@xymon.invalid> wrote:

Patrick Nixon wrote:

Yes, I also do agree with this!
BTW, this was already spotted in
http://www.hswn.dk/hobbiton/2008/05/msg00042.html


After digging into the code, I found 2 issues around the DOWNTIME behaviour.

1. Internal handling of DOWNTIME values do not reflect the specification 
of the  bb-hosts(5) man page.

The man page says: 
DOWNTIME=[columns:]day:starttime:endtime:cause[,day:starttime:endtime:cause]

But the check_downtime function code in lib/timefunc.c says:
---- extract of ./lib/timefunc.c ----
...
    303                  do {
    304                          /* Its either DAYS:START:END or 
SERVICE:DAYS:START:END:CAUSE */
    305
    306                          s1 = p; p += strcspn(p, ":"); if (*p != 
'\0') { *p = '\0'; p++; }
    307                          s2 = p; p += strcspn(p, ":"); if (*p != 
'\0') { *p = '\0'; p++; }
...

According to this, the man page should say:
DOWNTIME=day:starttime:endtime:[,day:starttime:endtime]
	OR
DOWNTIME=columns:day:starttime:endtime:cause[,columns,day:starttime:endtime:cause]

2. The "Planned Downtime" line displayed in info column do not honor the 
optional "columns" tag at all. The generate_info function in 
./web/hobbitsvc-info.c calls the timespec_text function that handles 
day:starttime:endtime values only. (like REPORTTIME).

------------- extract of /web/hobbitsvc-info.c---------
    871          val = bbh_item(hostwalk, BBH_DOWNTIME);
    872          if (val) {
    873                  char *s = timespec_text(val);
    874                  addtobuffer(infobuf, "<tr><th 
align=left>Planned downtime:</th><td align=left>");
    875                  addtobuffer(infobuf, s);
    876                  addtobuffer(infobuf, "</td></tr>\n");
    877          }

There is no quick hacks to solve both problems :-(
I think only the boss -Henrik- can make the appropriate redesign/changes.

Dominique