[tor-bugs] #9103 [Metrics Utilities]: Allow ignoring certain consensus-health warnings

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#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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