Editing downtime.dat with an external program

[Aaron M. Segura]

On Wed, 2008-01-30 at 17:19 -0500, Edson Manners wrote:
> Using - Nagios 2.10
> RHEL 5
> 
> Hi everyone,
>    I'm in the process of creating an external webpage in PHP that allows 
> our team to set bulk downtimes after, say, a round of MS patches.
> 
> I am at the point where my PHP page outputs the following for each host 
> chosen with the idea that it'll be appended to downtime.dat:
> 
> hostdowntime {
>        host_name=nagios.fsu.edu
>        downtime_id=11
>        entry_time=1201704159
>        start_time=1201704115
>        end_time=1201711315
>        triggered_by=0
>        fixed=1
>        duration=7200
>        author=Edson Manners
>        comment=Blahh
>        }
> 
> 
> This is in the format of the downtime.dat file. However the top of the 
> downtime.dat file warns that it should not be modified but by nagios 
> itself. Is there some API supported way to add downtime to nagios using 
> external programs or is this the way to do it?
> Thanks

External Commands:
http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/2_0/extcommands.html

I have written a PHP script that will use external commands to schedule
downtime from the command line:
http://www.nagiosexchange.org/Downtimes.38.0.html?&tx_netnagext_pi1[p_view]=628


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