Xymon maintaienance

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list Eli · Thu, 22 Oct 2015 19:45:04 -0600 ·

I am looking to set xymon to stop alerts on certain time of the day everyday ex. Between 3am- 4 am. How I can set that? I didn't see that option on regular exclude time option. Thanks.
Eli

list Gab Dito · Thu, 22 Oct 2015 22:02:50 -0400 ·

"DOWNTIME" in the hosts.cfg, it doesn't work for purple alert prior build
4.3.20 <http://sourceforge.net/projects/xymon/files/Xymon/4.3.20/>;


http://xymon.sourceforge.net/xymon/help/manpages/man5/hosts.cfg.5.html


Gab

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I am looking to set xymon to stop alerts on certain time of the day
everyday ex. Between 3am- 4 am. How I can set that? I didn't see that
option on regular exclude time option. Thanks.
Eli

list Becker Christian · Fri, 23 Oct 2015 06:33:51 +0000 ·

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

Mittelrhein-Verlag GmbH
August-Horch-Straße 28
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list Eli · Fri, 23 Oct 2015 06:53:39 -0600 ·

Thanks much for feedback, good work around.
Eli

▸ quoted from Becker Christian


Becker Christian <user-e4a19bfb94c0@xymon.invalid> wrote:

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

Mittelrhein-Verlag GmbH
August-Horch-Straße 28
D-56070 Koblenz
Verleger und Geschäftsführer: Walterpeter Twer
Reg.-Gericht Koblenz HRB 121
Finanzamt Koblenz Str.Nr. 22 65 10 285 2
www.rhein-zeitung.de


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list Paul Root · Fri, 23 Oct 2015 14:19:13 +0000 ·

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.

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From: Xymon [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Becker Christian
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To: 'Eli'
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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

Mittelrhein-Verlag GmbH
August-Horch-Straße 28
D-56070 Koblenz
Verleger und Geschäftsführer: Walterpeter Twer
Reg.-Gericht Koblenz HRB 121
Finanzamt Koblenz Str.Nr. 22 65 10 285 2
www.rhein-zeitung.de


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list Ryan Novosielski · Fri, 23 Oct 2015 10:26:30 -0400 ·

I just stop the sendmail daemon. That host isn't for anything else, so that works OK. I clear out the mqueue directories before I start it again.

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On Oct 23, 2015, at 10:19, Root, Paul T <user-76fdb6883669@xymon.invalid<mailto: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.

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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

Mittelrhein-Verlag GmbH
August-Horch-Straße 28
D-56070 Koblenz
Verleger und Geschäftsführer: Walterpeter Twer
Reg.-Gericht Koblenz HRB 121
Finanzamt Koblenz Str.Nr. 22 65 10 285 2


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list Betsy Schwartz · Sun, 25 Oct 2015 17:39:12 -0400 ·

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>

▸ quoted from Ryan Novosielski

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

Mittelrhein-Verlag GmbH
August-Horch-Straße 28
D-56070 Koblenz
Verleger und Geschäftsführer: Walterpeter Twer
Reg.-Gericht Koblenz HRB 121
Finanzamt Koblenz Str.Nr. 22 65 10 285 2
www.rhein-zeitung.de


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