* Jim Trocki wrote: > On Sat, 17 Oct 2009, Res wrote: > >>> I'm currently planning to implement this as a second process that >>> continuously reads a flat csv file containing what,when,how long\n. >> >> Absolutely yes, IMHO it is the only place to add such a function, >> since it is the governing process. >
My thoughts exactly. However, I won't touch the code to mon itself. I've read some of it, even copied some of it into my current project, but it is above my coding capabilities. I refuse to mangle something that is so close to perfect. On a conceptual level this is how I would go about it. Create a data structure to hold scheduled downtime events. Something like qw ( StartTimeStamp Duration ObjType ( Watch|host|service ) ObjName ) Add a new maintenance state to the watchs|hosts|services This would work like current Enabled,Disabled or OK, Failed, Failing states. Add the appropriate functions to Mon::Client to access this state Something like list_maintenance Modify the monitor logic so that if an object is in the maintenance state, monitors for it don't run. Could work like an exclusion period. > i already have something which can do that, with minor mods. i doubt > anyone knows about it, though :) Please make them & put it into mon. > > http://search.cpan.org/~trockij/ > > the ones named "schedule". > > the config is kept in csv format so it can be edited easily with a > spreadsheet. > I'll see if I can leverage that in the current project. > also there is some discussion of it here: > > http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/admin/mon/mon-talk-1.2.pdf > Nice paper! That is so going into my reference file.! I'd figured there was a way to escalate alerts, somewhere in the configuration parameters just screaming to get out. I never even thought of multiple periods. Its so simple. Time to hit myself in the head with a keyboard. :-) -- Sincerely, Nathan Gibbs Systems Administrator Christ Media http://www.cmpublishers.com
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