[smokeping-users] Configuring a maintenance window

[pabe-smokepingmailingliste]

Dear all,

I tried searching the doc and the archive and didn't find anything
useful.
Is there an option to define maintenance windows?

We are monitoring ~100 Hosts
A chunk of those is unreachable for ~5-10 minutes every night (ISPs are
working on some stuff)
We get sent notifications for those downtimes

-> We are looking at ways to not receive mails between ~11:45pm and
~3:45am

Any clue on how to achieve this?


Thanks a lot in advance & best regards!

[Eric Brander]

On Fri, Sep 28, 2018 at 4:33 AM pabe-smokepingmailingliste <

Post by pabe-smokepingmailingliste
Is there an option to define maintenance windows?

No, but you can call an external program as an alert. In that external
program, likely some sort of script, you could have it check for time of
day and then send an email message or any number of automated functions.

*to* *(mandatory setting)*
Either an email address to send alerts to, or the name of a program to
execute when an alert matches. To call a program, the first character of the
*to* value must be a pipe symbol "|". The program will the be called
whenever an alert matches, using the following 5 arguments (except if
*edgetrigger* is 'yes'; see below): *name-of-alert*, *target*,
*loss-pattern*, *rtt-pattern*, *hostname*. You can also provide a comma
separated list of addresses and programs.

[Gregory Sloop]

IMO, by far the easiest way to control notifications is to use a tool that's really meant to handle notifications elegantly.
OMD [Nagios/Naemon/Iconga "package"] handles this kind of stuff really well.

Setting up OMD/Magios isn't trivial, but once you do it, you can have a very elegant notification process - multiple destinations, groups, notification windows etc.

I've posted this general thought multiple times - but I'll say it again.
Smokeping is, IMO, a "quality" tool. [What is the quality of the connection like.]
OMD/Nagios are "state" tools. [Is the connection "up" or "down" - and what do we do about it.]

The alert system in smokeping is pretty limited - and writing all the code to make it more elaborate would take a lot of effort. Using Nagios plug-ins to allow OMD/Nagios to view/use smokeping rrd's. [or simply use OMD's ping test to check directly and run the two tools independently - which is what I do. I used to use the plug-in, but I'm just as happy having both OMD and smokeping pinging the same hosts and the setup is less complicated in that I don't have to do any special configuration to either tool, and there's no dependencies between them.]

---
The reason I suggest OMD [vs Nagios] is the "scheduled routine maintenance" window you describe.
OMD has this built in. Nagios, the free version, doesn't - at least the last I checked.
OMD has a tool to allow you to block out, say a 15m window for a host that routinely occurs - and it will keep notifications from being sent during the window - but it will still keep checking and maintaining stats.

I can't say enough good things about OMD - it's *totally* kicks @ss. Totally.
https://labs.consol.de/omd/index.html

So, in my setup - OMD alerts me to down hosts/services and other serious problems.
Then, if it's something more complicated than up/down, I then bring up smokeping and start looking at the more nuanced detail.

HTH

-Greg

ps> Dear all,

ps> I tried searching the doc and the archive and didn't find anything
ps> useful.
ps> Is there an option to define maintenance windows?

We are monitoring ~100 Hosts
A chunk of those is unreachable for ~5-10 minutes every night (ISPs are
working on some stuff)
We get sent notifications for those downtimes

->> We are looking at ways to not receive mails between ~11:45pm and
ps> ~3:45am

ps> Any clue on how to achieve this?


ps> Thanks a lot in advance & best regards!

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