down-times for hosts?

[Russell Scibetti]

The way nagios handles downtime (assuming you are talking about entering 
in scheduled downtime) is as a suppression of notifications, not a 
suppression of checks.  If you put a host into a scheduled downtime, the 
service check will occur still.  If that service is down, nagios will 
then do a host check.  If the host is down (the downtime has begun), it 
will show that the host is down.  But when it goes to do the 
notification, it checks to see if the host is in a period of downtime. 
 Since it is, the notifications will not go out, but the host will be in 
a down state, not assumed OK.

This is actually beneficial if the downtime ends and for some reason a 
problem still exists.  The host or service should have come back up but 
hasn't.  So instead of having to go through all the retries (if you have 
retries set up), the host/service is already in a Hard non-OK state, so 
you will get notified after the first check.

-Russell

Nicole Hähnel wrote:

> Hi,
>
> what is the best way to specifiy down times for server/services?
>
> Nagios should not check the service and assume up for this time.
>
> It should not affect uptime statistics.
>
>  
>
> Gruss
>
> Nicole
>

-- 
Russell Scibetti
Quadrix Solutions, Inc.
http://www.quadrix.com
(732) 235-2335, ext. 7038


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