Issues with 1.0b5

[John Sellens]

| From: Brian Wilson <wilson at unity.ncsu.edu>
| Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 10:22:16 -0400
| 
| 3rd problem: One problem with netsaint, which I still see in nagios, is
| the lack of a tool to bulk manage a number of devices.  (ie, if I know a
| building is going to loose power from 08:00 to 14:00, then I want to
| schedule downtime for all devices in that building.  With the current
| process of setting downtime, this is rather tedius.  I'll probably get
| around it by writing my own interface to do this (as I did with netsaint),
| but this would be a great feature to add to your wishlist.

Could you put all the devices in a hostgroup, and then schedule
downtime for the hostgroup?  (You didn't mention that you had tried
this and found it wanting, so apologies if this is painfully obvious
and not helpful.)

I think you can have a device in multiple hostgroups.

I had trouble finding the place where you can schedule hostgroup
downtime, I only found eventually it by reading the source.

If you choose "Status Summary" from the "Monitoring" section of the
left frame in the web interface, I think you should get a screen
that says "Status Summary For All Host Groups".  The host groups
are listed in a column, with "Long host group name (shortname)".

If you click on the "(shortname)" you should get "Hostgroup Commands"
which will let you run commands on the host group, including
scheduling downtime.  I think it ends up recording separate downtime
events for each host/service in the host group, but it's much less
tedious than doing each host separately.

Hope this helps!

John
jsellens at generalconcepts.com


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