Adam, fyi, other monitoring apps allow you to suspend or pause alert/notifications for a device for a period of time, after that time elapses, then the alerting and notification are automatically re-enabled.

  Here is seems that the notifications are handled separately (even though they are in the same config screen) and do not re-enable with the alerts.  I think this should be improved.  I don’t think (imho) that you need to treat alerting and notifications separately, when I take down a server for patching etc, I want to disable both, never one or the other.

  I have also noticed that for the alerts, if I set “ignore until” for an hour in the future, after that hour has passed, the screen still shows that the “ignore until” is checked (and seemingly) active…it is not of course, but after the hour passes, the system should remove the check and re-enable notifications so that it is not confusing.

Just my 2 cents

From: observium <observium-bounces@observium.org> On Behalf Of Adam Armstrong via observium
Sent: Monday, April 18, 2022 1:10 PM
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Subject: Re: [Observium] how does "ignore until" under device/alert settings work?...looking for a "in maintenance" mode for a device

What do you mean by “still get alerted”?

Adam.

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On 18 Apr 2022, at 14:54, Tony Guadagno via observium <observium@observium.org> wrote:

Sorry if this is an obvious question but I have been playing with this and it does not behave the way I am expecting… under device properties/alerts there is an “ignore until” option as well as a “disable notifications” toggle….

If I set the “ignore until” to sometime in the future and I (for example) restart the device…I still get alerted.  If I toggle the “disable notifications” , I do not get the notifications anymore…however, it stays disabled past the “ignore until” time

How is this feature supposed to work?

I am looking for a way to put a device in “maintenance mode” so that if I am upgrading etc…no alerts are generated and no notifications are sent.

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