Re: {bb} BB Alarm Sensitivity

[Robert-Andre Croteau <sirac@videotron.ca>]

Duncan Sterling wrote:
> 
> I remember seeing a thread about this a long time ago; does anyone
> remember how to tweak BB such that it waits for something to fail twice
> (or gives a service longer to respond to a BB query) before paging you?
> 
> I have a heavily loaded server which can be a bit slow to answer under
> some conditions, which in turn often provokes a "nuissance page",
> (particularly at five in the morning when I'm doing system backups) with a
> 600 (http) error.
> 
> I'd love to be able to adjust things such that I don't get paged in the
> middle of the night for false alarms anymore...
> 
> TIA,
> 
> --Duncan

You probably don't have BBWARN 2.4 installed (available
at ftp://ftp.deadcat.net.au/pub/BB and that's for pre-1.08b)
or have 1.08b installed which has it built-in.

It lets you specify what/when/how for the notification.
So you can say for the http service only notify between
6AM and 8PM.

bye,
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