Here's the scenario:
I'm trying to set up Maintenance Windows in Zenoss 2.1. (For the record, what
I'm about to describe also happened in 2.0.x so I don't think it was introduced
in 2.1). Here's what some of our blackout times look like in our current
monitoring product:
1am-3am daily for Windows ServerGroupA;
4:30am-6:30am daily for Windows ServerGroupA again;
5am-6am daily for backup servers;
1:50am-3am Sundays for Domain Controller rolling reboot;
2:45am-4am Sundays for Windows Server reboots;
etc, etc...
This is just a small subset, but as you can see there are a many windows that
overlap each other, some involving the same servers. This works beautifully in
our current product, mainly because we just tell it to not page during that
time--it really doesn't have the concept of a "maintenance window", you just
write a "don't page" rule. When I try to duplicate this functionality with
Zenoss, I set up a Maintenance Window for each of the times listed above and
set the production state to "Maintenance" and the ending state to "Original".
In my mind, this should work.
Unfortunately, the behavior I see is somewhat different. Usually I come in
Monday morning and wonder why I have no events showing on the dashboard, only
to discover that all of my Windows servers are still in Maintenance mode!
After this happened for a few weeks I thought that maybe it was the overlapping
windows that were throwing it off (although I don't see how or why) so I
disabled all the windows except the Sunday Reboot, yet I'm still seeing this
behavior. Also, it used to be just my Windows servers that were affected. The
Linux boxen that were affected by the window would return to Production before,
but now even some of the Linux servers seem to be affected. I just don't get
it.
All that to say: is anyone else seeing this behavior? Is anyone using
Maintenance Windows successfully? And if so, how complex are your windows,
etc?
And to the Zenoss guys: should I be able to use overlapping Maintenance
Windows like this? Any suggestions for testing purposes? This is a test
environment and no one is relying on it for alerts (yet), so if there's
anything you'd like me to test I'm all for it.
Thank you!
seth wright ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
windows engineer
540.568.2912 (office)
james madison university
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