Re: {bb} disabling notifications on certain processes.

[Ryan Novosielski <novosirj@umdnj.edu>]

This can also be done with cron and disable. Some might prefer this way 
for accounting/SLA purposes, to separate maintenance windows from 
unscheduled downtime.

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Tom Schmidt wrote:
> This can easily be done in the bbwarnrules.cfg file.  The comments at 
> the top of this file explain how to set it up.  An example that might 
> work for you would look something like this:
>
> oracleserver;;*;oracle;*;*;jthrumst@crhc.org
> oracleserver;;oracle;;*;0000-0159 0500-2359;jthrumst@crhc.org
>
> This tells it to send E-mail alerts for the server "oracleserver" for 
> all tests except "oracle" 24x7.  Alerts for "oracle" test are only 
> sent from midnight to 1:59am, and 5:00am to midnight.
>
> I do this same thing nightly for a service that has a daily scheduled 
> downtime.
>
> Tom
>
> John Thrumston wrote:
> > Hi I sent out an email yesterday and after reading it again I just
> > wanted to make more sense.
> >
> > I have an ext script for Oracle monitoring, and I also watch certain
> > http processes thru the bb-hosts file that for certain servers I want to
> > disable notifications on say from 2 am to 5 am. We take these processes
> > down nightly for backups and other things. Right now this is bombarding
> > my email with notifications.  Since this is a daily issue I wanted to
> > know if anyone knows a way to make this happen. I saw a script on
> > deadcat that will allow for setting up multiple proctabs but this won't
> > help me with the program in the ext dir.
> >
> > Has anyone done something like this before?
> >
> > I am using another script from deadcat that gives me the ability on the
> > web page to disable certain monitored processes for x# of minutes but
> > that is a manual process. I am looking more for a way to automate that
> > kind of thing.
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