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| I monitor some servers that we classify as "dev". As such, I have a "dev policy" that has a blackout period (11pm - 5am) for the pager.
That all works fine.
Now, what I'd really like is the ability to have any alerts that were "skipped due to blackout period" get sent when the blackout period ends. In other words, not skipped but deferred.
I don't want to get paged at 2am because a dev server is down, but I sure want to know about it first thing in the morning!
Is such a thing possible with WhatsUp 11? Or, does anyone have some clever work-arounds? |
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| Perhaps this is impossible...
Anyone have any creative work-arounds or approaches? |
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| | Ok, BLACKOUT will go on monitoring the box but will not send alerts, while MAINTENANCE will stop monitoring it. So : > If you don't mind NOT monitoring the box during the blackout period, use a recurring maintenance schedule instead of a blackout period. > If you DO want to keep monitoring the box during the blackout period, define a new "down state" that is 1 MINUTE LONGER than the duration of your blackout period, and use this down state in your action policy.
Reading, writing and arithmetic - If you need to choose, please take option 1. |
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| | I have the same issue, there's some devices that I don't really want to get woken up for, but want to know first thing in the morning. Would the 1 minute longer approach work ? Say you had blackout from 10pm - 6am, and a problem occured at 3am ? Its a 10 hour blackout, but I don't want to know about a 3am problem at 1pm in the afternoon, I want to know about it at 6am. Could a script be created and scheduled to run at 6am ? Or could we restart the WUP service (this tends to generate down messages for some of my active monitors that come back up a few minutes later though) ? |
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| | | Supreme Being
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| | If you don't care about an outage that resolved itself, just use a maintenance window. Then your default alerts, 5 min or so, and you will be notified that long after the window has ended. Angi |
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| | I'd like to be able to do this too stop paging at night, and send pages in the morning for devices that are still down, but continue to monitor devices while it's not paging. Maintenance mode won't work for me because I still want it to monitor devices so I can keep historical data and gather metrics. |
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