scheduling downtime from cron

[Tom Yates]

On Tue, 20 Mar 2007, Rob Blake wrote:

> Yep, you want to make use of the external command file in Nagios. With 
> the external command file there are numerous commands that you can 
> submit into Nagios from external sources (hence the name). You could 
> simply put together a small shell script that submits the command to 
> enable downtime on a host at the beginning of your scheduled downtime, 
> and then when everything is finished have cron submit another command to 
> re-enabled the host/service.

fantastic - that's exactly what i want.  thank you!


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