[osiris-devel] Feature Request - Dated Ignores

[Brian Wotring]

If the persistent notifications are bothersome, you do have the option 
to have them automatically accepted.

On Jun 1, 2004, at 8:38 AM, Jason 'XenoPhage' Frisvold wrote:

>> As far as managing the alerts go, I think it falls outside the scope 
>> of
>> the management console.  If you know the schedules of these items, you
>> should be able to deal with this at a higher level.  For example, 
>> email
>> notifications could easily be filtered/archived according to content.
>> For syslog entries, a log analysis program (e.g. swatch) could easily
>> be used to look for these scheduled changes and report on the ones 
>> that
>> fall outside of your time window, and deal with the time window 
>> problem
>> by triggering an alert if more than one change happens inside that
>> window.
>
> I'll check out swatch ... I figured this might fall outside of the 
> scope
> of this ...  The problem that I see is that I know these files will
> change at a certain time due to cronjobs, log rotations, etc.  So I'm
> expecting the mails from osiris explaining that the checksum changed,
> the ctime changed, etc ...  I could just dump those messages, but they
> continue to come in until the database is updated...  Which is why I
> thought the best place to deal with this would be at the source....

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