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
>
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> 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
>>
>>
>>
>>
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