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[tor-bugs] #9103 [Metrics Utilities]: Allow ignoring certain consensus-health warnings
#9103: Allow ignoring certain consensus-health warnings
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Reporter: karsten | Owner:
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone:
Component: Metrics Utilities | Version:
Keywords: | Parent:
Points: | Actualpoints:
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The consensus-health script produces some rather persistent warnings. For
example, here's the most recent list of warnings:
{{{
WARNING: The following directory authorities are not reporting bandwidth
scanner results: turtles
NOTICE: The certificates of the following directory authorities expire
within the next two months: Faravahar 2013-08-09 03:46:54, maatuska
2013-08-06 07:58:18
NOTICE: The following directory authorities recommend other client
versions than the consensus: moria1 -0.2.4.14-alpha
NOTICE: The following directory authorities recommend other server
versions than the consensus: moria1 -0.2.4.14-alpha
}}}
People who watch the consensus-health list are well aware of these
warnings and know that two certs expire in 1.5 months and that Roger has
left Internet land for at least this week. That leaves just the first
issue that somebody should get Mike to resolve.
The current approach to reduce noise is as follows: if there are no new
warnings or if a warning persists for a given number of hours, don't send
an email.
There should be an option to ignore certain warnings until a given
timestamp. For example, I'd want to ignore expiring certs until mid-July
and moria1 recommending different versions until next Monday. I'd like to
edit a text file on yatei that contains the warning text and a timestamp
until when to ignore this warning.
This list of ignored warnings should also be added to the consensus-
health.html page, so that everyone can look up which warnings are
currently ignored. The text file could also contain a comment saying why
the warning is ignored and decide if that's a good idea or not.
Hopefully, this reduces noise even more and makes authority operators pay
more attention to the consensus-health list again.
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Ticket URL: <https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/9103>
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