Maintenance mode
Sometimes you want to do some work on a server without stopping the actual checkin of this server. Also you don't want to get allerts from Servers Alive saying that this server is down. Therefore the concept of MAINTENANCE was introduced.
Once a server/host entry is put into MAINTENANCE mode, it will be flagged as being in MAINTENANCE and Servers Alive will no longer try to test it.
There are several ways to put a host into maintenance mode.
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What Host number to use?
This is a sample TelNet session to Servers Alive :
Connected (c) 1997-1998 Woodstone Computer Consulting Inc. build 367 Known commands : SYST,STATUS,HELP,QUIT status Status of hosts at last check =============================== 1. entheeke (port 80) :UNCHECKED since 3:22:02 PM , 6/24/98 2. gate (port 8000) :UNCHECKED since 3:22:02 PM , 6/24/98 3. gate (port 8443) :UNCHECKED since 3:22:02 PM , 6/24/98 4. mailhost (port 25) :UNCHECKED since 3:22:02 PM , 6/24/98 5. mailhost (port 110) :UNCHECKED since 3:22:02 PM , 6/24/98 6. 172.22.0.71 (port 119) :UNCHECKED since 3:22:02 PM , 6/24/98 7. products (port 53) :UNCHECKED since 3:22:02 PM , 6/24/98 8. hermes (port 25) :UNCHECKED since 3:22:02 PM , 6/24/98 9. voyager (NTService msftpsvc)UNCHECKED since 3:22:02 PM , 6/24/98 10. zippy (port 80) :UNCHECKED since 3:22:03 PM , 6/24/98 Last check done on |
So if you want to put products (port 53) into maintenance mode, you must use 7 as host number.