Disable alert from client or Server 🔗 link

Hi,

I have a need when we roll out new version of an application to disable cron
on hosts whilst the app and database work goes ahead.

Is there a way from the command line on the client end or server end to
disable alerts for cron and then enable them again?

Regards
Shaun

Hi !

you can do this with bb

       disable HOSTNAME.TESTNAME DURATION <additional text>
              Disables  a  specific  test  for  DURATION minutes. This
will cause the status of this test to be listed as
              "blue" on the BBDISPLAY server, and no alerts for this
host/test will be generated. If DURATION is given as
              a  number  followed by s/m/h/d, it is interpreted as being
in seconds/minutes/hours/days respectively.   To
              disable all tests for a host, use an asterisk "*" for
TESTNAME.

       enable HOSTNAME.TESTNAME
              Re-enables a test that had been disabled.


So you can execute bb hobbitserver "disable dbservername.* 2h Backup
time" before shutting down the database and bb hobbitserver "enable
dbserver.*" just at the end.

I've got an perl-script from my colleague for this,


USAGES:

hobbit_cmd -d {duration[s|m|h|d] | UNTILOK} [-s service1,service2,...] [-c 
"Comment"] [-n] [-v] {HOST1 HOST2 ... | ALL}
             ^ sets downtime

hobbit_cmd -E [-s service1,service2,...] [-n] [-v] {HOST1 HOST2 ... | ALL}
             ^ cancels downtimes

hobbit_cmd -R [-s service1,service2,...] [-n] [-v] {HOST1 HOST2 ... | ALL}
             ^ erases host or service data

hobbit_cmd -L [HOST1 HOST2 ...]
             ^ prints downtime information

-c   add comments
-n   dry run
-v   increases verbosity in case of [-d], [-E] or [-R] present
-E   cancel downtime on targets (or certain service, if specified)
      mnemonic: Enable
-R   erase host or service data on server
      mnemonic: Remove
-l   reserved
-L   print verbose downtime information of all hosts or targets, if 
specified.

EXAMPLES:
hobbit_cmd -d 24h -s service1,service2 -c "rebooting" HOST1 HOST2
hobbit_cmd -E -s service2 HOST1 HOST2
hobbit_cmd -R -s service2 HOST1 HOST2
hobbit_cmd -L


i could asked him, if could share it with the community ..


cheers,
 	martin

On Fri, 10 Jul 2009, Shaun Phillips wrote:

Hi !

i could asked him, if could share it with the community ..

My colleague has no objections ... so if somebody wants to have this
disable-alert-script ... no problem ..

a little example to disable an test :

flemming at titan:~ $ hobbit_cmd -v -d 1d -s cpu -c "known" bird033
PREPARING...

"disable bird033.cpu 1d known, Fri Jul 17 16:14:51 2009"
Sent 1 commands for 1 host.
flemming at titan:~ $


cheers,
 	martin

On Sat, 11 Jul 2009, Martin Flemming wrote:

Gruss

        Martin Flemming


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