Re: [Observium] how does "ignore until" under device/alert settings work?...looking for a "in maintenance" mode for a device

19 Apr 2022

      Adam, I just ran the test again, and got the same result:
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Note the time “ignore until” was set to 1 hr in the future.  Then I shut down the server….after the polling interval:
[cid:image008.png@01D853D4.0AAC3620]
I’m not sure what I am doing wrong….is it possibly a “time” issue….it thinks the time has passed so it is “out” of the window?  Utc vs edt?
From: adama@observium.org adama@observium.org
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To: 'Observium' observium@observium.org; Tony Guadagno tonyg@guadagno.org
Subject: RE: [Observium] how does "ignore until" under device/alert settings work?...looking for a "in maintenance" mode for a device
I just tested this, and it seems to work correctly :
[cid:image003.png@01D853D4.0AA29930]
It shows the device hostname/style as ignored too.
Adam.
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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
Are you sure it’s generating notifications for devices with ignore_until set?
These alerts should have the “suppressed” state, the code seems correct to handle this :
if ($device['ignore_until']) {
          $device['ignore_until_time'] = strtotime($device['ignore_until']);
          if ($device['ignore_until_time'] > time()) {
            $alert_suppressed = TRUE;
            $suppressed[] = "DEV_U";
          }
        }
The second image is showing old/deprecated “status” widgets. These pre-date the alerting system. They’re mostly just retained for the people who were using them when we switched to the current alerting system. I can probably extend ignore_until to these, but at present it probably doesn’t interact with them.
Adam.
From: Tony Guadagno <tonyg@guadagno.orgmailto:tonyg@guadagno.org>
Sent: 18 April 2022 18:31
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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
Adam, I just recreated this, this is what I did and what happened
1.  Pick a server, go to properties/alerts.
  2.  Set “ignore until” to 1 hr in the future
  3.  Shutdown that server
After the server shut down and a poling cycle passed, the observium screen shows
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And
[cid:image005.jpg@01D853D4.0AA29930]
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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.orgmailto: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….
[image003.jpg]
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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