Changing Notification Periods

[Rusch, Daniel]

Thanks for the reply.  

I thought of both of your suggestions.  Let me try to explain a little
better.  It's more than just scheduling "down time"  we are really talking
about changing the timeperiods.  We don't want people to be required to
"schedule down time" (they will forget and I get paged). Normally, the
systems are backed up/maintained at the same time each week/day but on
occasion they need to change when the backup/maintenance occurs.  

For example:

# 'LEXM' timeperiod definition
define timeperiod{
	timeperiod_name	LEXM
	alias		LEXM
	sunday		00:00-04:00, 06:00-24:00
	monday		00:00-24:00
	tuesday		00:00-24:00
	wednesday	00:00-24:00
	thursday	00:00-24:00
	friday		00:00-24:00
	saturday	00:00-24:00
	}



look at Sunday's entry.  From 4 to 6 am,  outages will not be reported.
Let's say that they need to change that to 3 to 5.  Is there an easy way to
do it without editing the cfg file.

Dan



-----Original Message-----
From: Subhendu Ghosh [mailto:sghosh at sghosh.org]
Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2002 10:17 PM
To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Changing Notification Periods


On Thu, 5 Sep 2002, Rusch, Daniel wrote:

> All,
> 
> How do you handle hosts that the weekly scheduled downtime keeps changing.
> For example, I have a system call it Homer that normal goes down for
> database backup etc. On Sunday morning at 3 am to 4 am.  But about twice a
> month or so they want to change the time to something else (say 4 am to 5
> am).  How do you handle this.  I currently as a admin go in and hand edit
> the cfg file. It's no big deal for one server but do it for 50, agh...  Is
> the a way to allow a "special trusted user" to change this time through
the
> nagios interface?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Dan
> 

why edit the cfg?

Anyone who is a contact for the host/service should be able to schedule a 
downtime.  Alternatively a script to submit an external command the 
submits the following:

SCHEDULE_SVC_DOWNTIME;host;service_name;start epoch;end epoch;fixed=1
otherwise=0;duration (sec);contact name;comment

SCHEDULE_HOST_DOWNTIME;host;service_name;start epoch;end epoch;fixed=1
otherwise=0;duration (sec);contact name;comment


-- 

-sg



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