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

Harper Mann hmann at itgroundwork.com
Tue Mar 8 07:21:50 CET 2005


Hi Stanley,

Did you click on the hostgroup name from "Status Overview".  The actual name
is the one in the parenthesis ().  You should get a menu including an item
"Schedule downtime for all services in this hostgroup".

Cheers,

- Harper

Harper Mann
Groundwork Open Source Solutions
510-599-2075 (cell)
http://itgroundwork.com


> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-
> admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Stanley Hopcroft
> Sent: Monday, March 07, 2005 10:12 PM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Nagios-users] FAQ ? How does one schedule downtime for all
> services in a hostgroup or a set of hosts ?
> 
> 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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