Tom, yes, I am aware of how to disable the alerts for a specific device. What I want to do is disable alerts system wide for a time period. I can take responsibility for scripting the disable/enable part….but
is there a way at the OS level to system wide disable alerts?
From: Tom Laermans via observium <observium@lists.observium.org>
Sent: Monday, November 27, 2023 4:52 PM
To: Tony Guadagno via observium <observium@lists.observium.org>
Cc: Tom Laermans <tom.laermans@powersource.cx>
Subject: [Observium] Re: is there an alert kill switch?
Hi Tony,
There is an option to disable alerting for a device. You can set and unset this option using the API.
That could possibly work? (note it disables ALL alerting on the device for the time that checkmark is on)
Alternatively, you could also set a "delay" variable on your alerts - which means they won't fire after x times 5 minutes have passed, allowing your machine to reboot and come back up before an alert is sent. However this delays ALL your
alerts for that specific checker for x times 5 minutes which is probably undesirable (so it depends what alerts you're seeing to make that call...)
Tom
On 27/11/2023 21:02, Tony Guadagno via observium wrote:
Hi, when my Microsoft servers patch monthly, they often reboot and that causes an alert that is unnecessary for me. Is there a way (maybe a script I could write) that would disable alerting? I am thinking about making a cron job that would run monthly (at the time I am patching) that would disable alerting…then maybe 2 hrs later, re-enable alerting.
Is this possible?
Tony Guadagno
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