Periodic Overrides

[Ton Voon]

On 12 Mar 2009, at 15:29, Jason Frisvold wrote:

>
> 	For any given service, what is the accepted method for overriding  
> test
> values for a specific time period?  For example, we have servers that
> are backed up at a given time each night.  During the backup period,
> load is driven up on the server, exceeding the current threshold.   
> This,
> in turn, results in alerts being sent out about the server.
>
> 	However, since we know about this in advance, and it's a scheduled
> service, we'd like to override the load value during the backup  
> period.
> So if we normally trigger on a load of 2, we'd like to instead trigger
> on a load of 4 during backups.
>
> 	I know I can create two services with two timeperiods that will  
> handle
> this, but is there a better way?

Check out our patch: http://opsview-blog.opsera.com/dotorg/2007/04/changing_a_serv.html

You can then run a different command based on the timeperiod specified.

Ton


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