Turn off banners 1

[erisso1]

How can I turn of banners globally? I have over 100 message records and actions setup to trigger a banner when an event takes place. This weekend I am confronting some major scheduled network outages, and I want to disbale the banners from firing off. What can I do besides changing all the actions to disable?

 

[Ehrnell]

Perhaps you could do it the dirty way and rename CABANNER.EXE. Then your message actions can´t find the file and you will not get the banner. You will off course get an error message that will say that the file couldn´t be found. Another way is to set the TCP/IP network in status unmanaged, but then you will not get any messages at all.

Best regards

Marcus

 

[MartinNZ]

for the future I would alter your 100 rules so that instead of calling banner directly they call a second rule which is based on a calendar.

That way you have a way of scheduling when you get your banners.

Step by step that would mean...

a) create a new calendar eg. MYCAL( or use an existing one ) you can set to off during maintenance periods

b) create a new rule e.g 'MYBanners *' to create the banners
text - &(2
action - BANNER
calendar prof (on the Config tab) - MYCAL

You can now OPRELOAD and test your new rule with
cawto MYBanners this is a test banner

c) now the painful bit... change your rules that currently create banners....
- edit the text to have the word MYBanners followed by a space at the front of the text
- change the action to EVALUATE

This also gives you flexibility for later should you decide to do some other global action along with sending a banner, you only have 1 rule to change. An example would be a NETSEND or email using a command line mailer.

 

[JonnoGT]

Run this command on your CA core server:

cautil sel msgact action=BANNER alt msgact status=INACTIVE

Then do an opreload
That will turn off all the banner actions.
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