The dev/qa guys do not keep an eye on disk usage and more than once they've let their data grow to the point where a DB has been corrupted. This then means that a sysadmin has to get involved to cleanup the mess and do a recover.
On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 7:34 AM, Pascal Larivee <[email protected]> wrote: > My question would be then, why monitor them at all? Or you could set then > in a "qa" group that sends no alert at all, only viewable on the web > interface > > -- > Pascal Larivée > Senior IT Architecture & Cloud Ops Engineer > Internap > > Unfortunately interval time may not be the best method since dev/qa people > can power their servers on and off when they want. So they could power > them on for the weekend if they're working, or they may power them off > during a workday if they have the day off. > > On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 7:21 AM, Gunnar Beutner <[email protected] > > wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> There are two things you could do about that: >> >> 1. Set the check_period attribute for those Host and Service objects – >> this way Icinga will only run checks during whatever interval you specify >> in that TimePeriod object. >> 2. Set the period attribute for whatever Notification objects you have >> for those hosts and services – that way Icinga will still check those hosts >> and services, however it will only send notifications according to the >> intervals in the TimePeriod object. >> >> Kind regards, >> Gunnar >> >> On 15/06/16 13:16, "icinga-users on behalf of Matt Shields" < >> [email protected] on behalf of [email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> I have Icinga setup to monitor our production instances in AWS, but we >> also have dev/qa resources that get shut off every night. I haven't been >> monitoring them because as soon as they power off I get flooded with alerts. >> >> >> Is there a way to monitor servers only when they are powered on? >> >> >> Thanks >> Matt >> >> >> >> >> -- >> Gunnar Beutner >> Senior Developer >> >> NETWAYS GmbH | Deutschherrnstr. 15-19 | D-90429 Nuernberg >> Tel: +49 911 92885-0 | Fax: +49 911 92885-77 >> CEO: Julian Hein, Bernd Erk | AG Nuernberg HRB18461 >> http://www.netways.de | [email protected] >> >> ** OSBConf 2016 - September - osbconf.org ** >> ** OSMC 2016 - November - netways.de/osmc ** >> _______________________________________________ >> icinga-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.icinga.org/mailman/listinfo/icinga-users >> > > > _______________________________________________ > icinga-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.icinga.org/mailman/listinfo/icinga-users > >
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