FAQ ? How does one schedule downtime for all services in a hostgroup or a set of hosts ?

[Stanley Hopcroft]

Dear Folks,

If this is an FAQ, please say in which FM I should read, or roughly 
where in the archives I could look; otherwise 

How does one schedule downtime for all services on a collection of 
hosts (say all the hosts in a hostgroup) through the CGIs ?

One may wish to do this, for example, if all the hosts used SAN or NAS 
storage for their data/applications and the 'single point of failure' 
SAN or NAS was scheduled for maintenance or upgrade.

Other than a script to 

. parse the config files and extract all the services for the hosts in 
the collection

. for each service 
     submit a scheduled service downtime command

Is there any other way of doing this (preferably though the CGIs) that I 
have missed ?

Is this the reason for defining service groups (in Nag 2.x) ?

Yours sincerely.

-- 
Stanley Hopcroft

IP Australia
Ph: (02) 6283 3189  Fax: (02) 6281 1353
PO Box 200 Woden  ACT 2606
http://www.ipaustralia.gov.au
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