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How do you define days with "TIME" in the hobbit-alerts.cfg?

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list James Gearing · Tue, 25 Jul 2006 14:51:59 -0400 · 

Hi all,

I'm trying to setup my pager to alert me Monday - Friday, 7:00 - 24:00.
I understand how to set the hours, but how do you set the days? All the
examples I have seen with days in them, only list one day or *. To do
multiple days, do you use "," between the days? Can you use a range
character? I have also seen Wednesday listed as W or 3 in the examples,
will either work?

TIME=1,2,3,4,5:700:2400 <---is that right?

Thanks,
James
list Larry Barber · Tue, 25 Jul 2006 13:57:56 -0500 · 
"W" means week days, not just Wednesday so you could just use that.
Otherwise to specify weekdays you could say 12345:... (note no commas).

Thanks,
Larry Barber
▸ quoted from James Gearing

On 7/25/06, Gearing, James <user-eb1a3271f7cc@xymon.invalid> wrote:

Hi all,

I'm trying to setup my pager to alert me Monday - Friday, 7:00 - 24:00.
I understand how to set the hours, but how do you set the days? All the
examples I have seen with days in them, only list one day or *. To do
multiple days, do you use "," between the days? Can you use a range
character? I have also seen Wednesday listed as W or 3 in the examples,
will either work?

TIME=1,2,3,4,5:700:2400 <---is that right?

Thanks,
James
list R. Leyton · Tue, 25 Jul 2006 20:00:37 +0100 · 
Hi James,

You probably want to look at the bb-hosts(5) man page (specifically  the NKTIME section).

  day-of-week: W means Mon-Fri ("weekdays"), * means all  days,  0
              ..  6  = Sunday .. Saturday.  Listing multiple days  is possible,
              e.g. "60" is valid meaning "Saturday and Sunday".
ie. you're probably after a specification such as:

TIME=W:0700:0000

Hope that helps,

regards,

Richard

--
Richard Leyton - user-787ca786c598@xymon.invalid
http://www.leyton.org
▸ quoted from Larry Barber


On 25 Jul 2006, at 19:51, Gearing, James wrote:

Hi all,

I'm trying to setup my pager to alert me Monday - Friday, 7:00 -  24:00.
I understand how to set the hours, but how do you set the days? All  the
examples I have seen with days in them, only list one day or *. To do
multiple days, do you use "," between the days? Can you use a range
character? I have also seen Wednesday listed as W or 3 in the  examples,
will either work?

TIME=1,2,3,4,5:700:2400 <---is that right?

Thanks,
James
list James Gearing · Tue, 25 Jul 2006 15:06:19 -0400 · 
Thanks, that's what I was looking for.

Another question. Is it possible to do multiple TIME statements in one
alert? I'd like to get the alert 7-12 m-f and all day sat and sun. Know
if that's possible?

-----Original Message-----
From: R. Leyton [mailto:user-787ca786c598@xymon.invalid] Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2006 3:01 PM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: Re: [hobbit] How do you define days with "TIME" in the
hobbit-alerts.cfg?
▸ quoted from R. Leyton

Hi James,

You probably want to look at the bb-hosts(5) man page (specifically the
NKTIME section).

  day-of-week: W means Mon-Fri ("weekdays"), * means all  days,  0
              ..  6  = Sunday .. Saturday.  Listing multiple days is possible,
              e.g. "60" is valid meaning "Saturday and Sunday".
ie. you're probably after a specification such as:

TIME=W:0700:0000

Hope that helps,

regards,

Richard

--
Richard Leyton - user-787ca786c598@xymon.invalid
http://www.leyton.org


On 25 Jul 2006, at 19:51, Gearing, James wrote:

Hi all,

I'm trying to setup my pager to alert me Monday - Friday, 7:00 - 24:00.
I understand how to set the hours, but how do you set the days? All the examples I have seen with days in them, only list one day or *. To
do multiple days, do you use "," between the days? Can you use a range
character? I have also seen Wednesday listed as W or 3 in the examples, will either work?

TIME=1,2,3,4,5:700:2400 <---is that right?

Thanks,
James
list R. Leyton · Tue, 25 Jul 2006 20:32:21 +0100 · 
Per a paragraph or two below what I quoted, there's this, which  answers your question:

  If necessary, multiple periods can be specified. E.g. to monitor
              a   site   24x7,   except   between   noon   and    1   pm,   use
              NKTIME=*:0000:1159,*:1300:2359

              The interval between starttime and endtime may   cross  midnight,
              e.g.  *:2330:0200  would  be  valid  and have the  same effect as
              *:2330:2400,*:0000:0200.
So, probably:

TIME=W:0700:2400,06:0000:2400

It might be a nice tweak to have 'E' for weekend, or something along  those lines, in a future release.

r.
▸ quoted from James Gearing


On 25 Jul 2006, at 20:06, Gearing, James wrote:

Thanks, that's what I was looking for.

Another question. Is it possible to do multiple TIME statements in one
alert? I'd like to get the alert 7-12 m-f and all day sat and sun.  Know
if that's possible?

-----Original Message-----
From: R. Leyton [mailto:user-787ca786c598@xymon.invalid]
Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2006 3:01 PM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: Re: [hobbit] How do you define days with "TIME" in the
hobbit-alerts.cfg?

Hi James,

You probably want to look at the bb-hosts(5) man page (specifically  the
NKTIME section).

  day-of-week: W means Mon-Fri ("weekdays"), * means all  days,  0
              ..  6  = Sunday .. Saturday.  Listing multiple days is
possible,
              e.g. "60" is valid meaning "Saturday and Sunday".
ie. you're probably after a specification such as:

TIME=W:0700:0000

Hope that helps,

regards,

Richard

--
Richard Leyton - user-787ca786c598@xymon.invalid
http://www.leyton.org


On 25 Jul 2006, at 19:51, Gearing, James wrote:

Hi all,

I'm trying to setup my pager to alert me Monday - Friday, 7:00 -
24:00.
I understand how to set the hours, but how do you set the days? All
the examples I have seen with days in them, only list one day or  *. To
do multiple days, do you use "," between the days? Can you use a  range
character? I have also seen Wednesday listed as W or 3 in the
examples, will either work?

TIME=1,2,3,4,5:700:2400 <---is that right?

Thanks,
James