I was thinking of something along these line. Or what if you have a service that dependes on another service being up. If you set the primary into maintance then the one that depended on it would not be checked and fail..
At 08:36 AM 10/15/04 +0200, you wrote: >You know what might be handy along these lines. What about the facility to >gen an alert if a check is in maintenance mode? I'm thinking along the lines >of, you have a check on something with 20 dependecies and sub dependencies. >Some wally decides he needs to do something on the target of the top level >check so he sets it to maintenance. He then does his thing and forgets to >set it back to active. In this scenario it would be useful to have some kind >of alert generated to say that the status is UNAVAILABLE due to the check >being in MAINTENANCE mode. Obviously this would need to be an optional >thing. What do you guys think? > >Rgds, > >Alistair Francis >Systems Administrator >Comm Express Services SA (PTY) LTD >TEL: +27 (0)11 475-5567 >FAX: +27 (0)11 475-6238 >CELL: +27 (0)82 608-0181 >The information contained in this electronic mail message is confidential to >the Matragon group of companies and may enjoy legal privilege. 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Shook >Technical Analyst >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >863 668 4477 (work) >863 860 4070 (cell) >863 665 1261 (fax) >www.saddlecrk.com > > > >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf >Of Dirk Bulinckx >Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2004 1:54 PM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: RE: [SA-list] Depends on > >Can you give me a real example of this? > >Dirk. > > > > > >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf >Of Michael D. Shook >Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2004 8:07 PM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: RE: [SA-list] Depends on >Or, what about a similar case to have a check performed ONLY if the dependor >was in maintenance. > >Michael D. Shook >Technical Analyst >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >863 668 4477 (work) >863 860 4070 (cell) >863 665 1261 (fax) >www.saddlecrk.com > > > >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf >Of Greg A Weigold >Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2004 12:46 PM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: RE: [SA-list] Depends on > > >But if B already has a dependency on something else.... :-) > > >---------------------------------------------------------------------------- >------------ >This is a PRIVATE message. If you are not the intended recipient, please >delete without copying and kindly advise us by e-mail of the mistake in >delivery. 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I know you have have the check depend on up or down, >but I was thinking you might want to have a check that depends on something >being in maintenance? 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