Scheduled host downtime and "unhandled services" in "Tactical Overview"

[Aaron M. Segura]

It's not automatic, but you can set downtime for all service on a host
using external commands.  Not sure how it would be done in the GUI, or
if it can be done that way.

http://www.nagios.org/developerinfo/externalcommands/commandinfo.php?command_id=122

I have written a utility that will allow you to do it from the cmdline:

http://www.sweetdeliah.com/nagios/downtime/

enjoy

On Fri, 2008-04-04 at 13:25 -0400, Carl Friend wrote:
> G'day folks,
> 
>    My immediate Management have begun to take notice of the Nagios
> implementation we've been running for the past two years, and now
> want to use it as a "management dashboard" to identify potential
> problems.  Now, whilst Nagios is a superb tool for the technician,
> it's not so hot for non-technical folks who, in this case, tend
> to lose control of their bodily functions when they see something
> in red on a screen.
> 
>    Here's the quandry:  If we put a host into "scheduled downtime"
> one would expect that the services would go into the same state,
> and, in point of fact, they *do* from the standpoint of notifications;
> however, in the "Tactical Overview" page, services on hosts that are
> in scheduled downtime show up as "unhandled" and are in that nice
> bright red colour that makes Managers go positively bats.
> 
>    Is there a way to have the "host downtime" automatically set the
> services on that host for scheduled downtime as well?  I looked
> through the doco, but nothing lept out at me, and I figured it'd
> be easier to ask than to immediately go and hack code.
> 
>    Thanks in advance!
> 
>    Cheers.
> 



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