Drew, This is very good information that I wasn't able to find anywhere else. One suggestion, when providing such detailed explanation of undocumented functionality it might be helpful for others in the future if you copy it into the wiki (or setup Trac with an email interface that you could just BCC to create a new page). At least that way you could start building some additional searchable and relevant documentation. I realize that the list archives are searchable, but it takes a lot of weeding to find relevant information sometimes.
Thanks again. There are some rough edges, but I think the product is coming along nicely. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Drew Bray Sent: Friday, December 15, 2006 1:59 PM To: General discussion of using zenoss system Subject: Re: [zenoss-users] Maintenance Windows Todd, The settings for maintenance windows refer to the following... The start production state is the state that the monitoring for the device (or group of device) is when the maintenance window begins. For example you are running along along in production, meaning you are monitoring and alerting on the devices normally. Then when the maintenance window time comes, you want to create a maintenance window, typically meaning changing the production state to not alert on those machines. There are three factors that affect and define the production state: 1. Whether or not the device is being monitored. 2. Whether or not you want alerting to occur 3. Whether or not the device appears on the dashboard The available production states are merely combinations of the above: Production - you want all three Pre-production - you may want monitoring but not alerting or the appearance on the dashboard Test - you may want monitoring and alerting (sent to one em,ail) and not displayed on the dashboard. Maintenance - you want monitoring and collection to occur, and maybe or maybe not the device on the dashboard, just not alerting going on Decommissioned - no monitoring, no dashboard, no alerting So the start production state is the state you want when the window occurs - if I were setting up a maintenance window, I would say when its time for the maintenance window to occur, I want the Start production state to be Maintenance, then when the window timeframe has expires I want the stop Production state to be Production, meaning its back to monitoring and alerting as normal. This would save sending out known alerts alerts as you rebooted or whatever. So in your case always make the Stop production state =Production. The other windows if they are grouped in the same group or if you are setting all, yes they will be set to production, you can create separarte groups for these and have maintenance windows definied for the production state you would like returned. I will also throw in a feature request to allow the production state to be read initially and then changed to a given state and then returned to the pre-window state. Thanks again, Drew [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Dec 14, 2006, at 4:10 PM, Todd Davis wrote: > Does anyone know what the settings are for Maintenance Windows? There > doesn't appear to be any documentation on them anywhere. > Specifically, what > is Start Production State and Stop Production State? They default to > Maintenance and Production respectively. Does this mean that at the > beginning of the window the devices are changed to Maintenance and > back to Production when it ends? If so, what about machines that were > Pre-Production or Test before the window began, do they become > Production? > > I want the window to be active for all devices, but I don't want their > state getting skewed after the window is complete. > > Any pointers to documentation would be appreciated. > > -- > Todd > > > _______________________________________________ > zenoss-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.zenoss.org/mailman/listinfo/zenoss-users _______________________________________________ zenoss-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.zenoss.org/mailman/listinfo/zenoss-users _______________________________________________ zenoss-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.zenoss.org/mailman/listinfo/zenoss-users
