SimonFlexible server monitoring
SimonI have a server that gets shut down for a long backup once a week, starting at 6pm on Friday and it goes until Sunday morning.
I can't figure out how to get the Simon test to Auto Pause for that long without glitching out and starting to issue bogus warnings.
I've tried setting the Autu Pause on Friday from 6pm to 12am/11:59pm, 1am, etc, with various tries at similar settings on Saturday and Sunday, but inevitably the test turns itself back on.
How can I get Simon to pause for an extended period of time?
Re: Need Long Auto Pause
You can add multiple auto pauses to a test, so you could have one for Friday from 6 PM to midnight, and another for weekends. Or one for all day Saturday, and a third for Sunday from midnight to the appropriate time that morning.
Re: Need Long Auto Pause
Sorry my message wasn't clear: that's what I did...but it doesn't seem to work.
I added Friday from 6pm to 12am and Saturday from 12am to 12am, and Sunday from 12am to 11am.
In case there was some kind of collision at midnight between the various days, I tried the end times as 11:59pm, but that also didn't work. Inevitably, the test reactivates at midnight and alerts.
Re: Need Long Auto Pause
Hmm, that should have worked. You could try adding more auto-pause rows to overlap the midnight time, e.g. 11 PM to 1 AM. Shouldn't be necessary, and may not help, but could be worth trying.
Re: Need Long Auto Pause
Ok, I tried that; we'll see what happens next weekend.
Re: Need Long Auto Pause
Didn't work. :-( Started alerting at 1am Saturday, when the second (overlapping) Friday auto-pause (11pm to 1am) expired. Saturday was set to auto-pause from 12:00am to 11pm.
Re: Need Long Auto Pause
Hmm. Sorry about that. I'll make a note to investigate when next working on Simon.
In the meantime, all I can suggest is (a) ignore the bogus notifications, (b) manually pause for the weekend, or (c) add a Script-based filter to change the failure to unchanged if the date is a weekend.