scheduled downtime

[Andreas Ericsson]

Sipos Ferenc wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> is there a way to schedule periodical downtime for a certain service of 
> a certain host?
> 
> an example:
> i have mysql running on one of my servers. i backup the database every 
> night at 22.00, which approximately takes an hour, so the service goes 
> down for an hour from 22.00 to 23.00 every day.
> 

For this particular example you could just create a new timeperiod 
excluding the hours above and setting that to be the check_period of 
this service.

> how can i schedule a downtime described above on my nagios web interface 
> (or a command line solution would be preferable)?

Read the documentation on external commands and do 'man 5 crontab' and 
'man crontab' on your system. A clever script should be able to read a 
rather large list of hosts and services and schedule them all.

-- 
Andreas Ericsson                   andreas.ericsson at op5.se
OP5 AB                             www.op5.se
Lead Developer


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