Have you looked into the Maintenance schedules? That would let you change the production state automatically . . .? Alerting rules also let you set a schedule / active period... -- James Pulver Information Technology Area Supervisor LEPP Computer Group Cornell University
James Alspach wrote, On 12/11/2008 2:16 PM: > We have a wireless network that is currently available 24 X 7. It > includes a guest SSID to allow visitors to our office to easily access > the internet. In an effort to keep this account from being used by the > neighbors to get free internet access, we are thinking of restricting > its use to certain hours. > > Since by monitoring the switch I can see the bandwidth used on the AP’s, > this seems like a perfect point to study to see if we even have any > after hour’s users to worry about. Now for the Zenoss question: > > Is there a way for me to set up an alert that is triggered during a > certain window of time by use over a threshold that I set? One way I > could do this would be to set the threshold and then use production > state to say that the AP’s are down during the day but this seems like a > hack to me. > > It seems that there should be a way to do this in a more straight > forward way. The data is all in the system, I just need to figure how > to access and use it. If I can make this work it actually opens up > Zenoss for use as a security tool. I.e. if somebody accesses the > accounting system after hours, it alerts and, if this is not normal > activity, I at least know to take a look. > > One thing that would be needed is to add a start and stop data/time > filter to the alerting rules. This seems pretty easy. The other part > would be to add filters that allow you to look at more than just events. > This may not be so easy, I don’t know. > > > > Anyway, thanks for any insight; > > > > James > > > > > > > > > > > > James Alspach > Systems Analyst II > > Shasta County Office of Education > > 1644 Magnolia avenue > > Redding, California > > 96003 > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > (530) 225-0293 > > > > IT Hotline: 225-0279 > > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > 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
