Scheduling downtime for groups of hosts?

[David Miller]

Nagios 2.5 running on debian stable.  Packages came from the backport 
collection.

If I have a group of a dozen web servers, is there a way to schedule 
downtime for all of them?

I read about triggered downtime in the docs:

*_Triggered Downtime_*

When scheduling host or service downtime you have the option of making 
it "triggered" downtime. What is triggered downtime, you ask? With 
triggered downtime the start of the downtime is triggered by the start 
of some other scheduled host or service downtime. This is extremely 
useful if you're scheduling downtime for a large number or hosts or 
services and the start time of the downtime period depends on the start 
time of another downtime entry. For instance, if you schedule flexible 
downtime for a particular host (because its going down for maintenance), 
you might want to schedule triggered downtime for all of that hosts's 
"children".


.... but I don't have a natural parent for the group that isn't also 
parent to a lot of things that I need to keep monitoring.

Entering a hostgroup name instead of a hostname gives this message:

"Sorry, but you are not authorized to commit the specified command."

This is being run by the nagiosadmin user with no restrictions placed on it.

Ideas?

Thanks,

--- David



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