Periodic downtime of a server

[Assaf Flatto]

If you defined the time periods and associated  the servers to them , you should not get any alerts 
for them at all .

What version of nagios are you running ?



On Monday 22 September 2008 11:24:53 Klaus Umbach wrote:
> On 22/09/08 11:26, Assaf Flatto wrote:
> > It seems that you need to make dependencies for the services on the host
> > status to limit the amount of notifications .
> > Also it is possible - if you have a set interval for each group ( set
> > schedule ) you can define a time period for each group to be checked.
>
> I already have defined specific timeperiods. I don't want to limit the
> notifications, I don't want to be notified at all between 3:30 and 4:30, no
> matter if the host or a service has a problem.
>
> > # 'exchange-servers' timeperiod definition
> > define timeperiod{
> >         timeperiod_name exchange
> >         alias           exchange reboot time
> >         sunday          00:00-24:00
> >         monday          00:00-03:00,04:30-24:00
> >         tuesday         00:00-24:00
> >         wednesday       00:00-24:00
> >         thursday        00:00-24:00
> >         friday          00:00-24:00
> >         saturday        00:00-24:00
> >         }
> >
> > And that will help you have a sorted and set schedule for each reboot
> > time.
> >
> > Assaf
> >
> > On Monday 22 September 2008 09:47:04 Klaus Umbach wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > How to I configure a periodic downtime of a server?
> > >
> > > My scenario:
> > >
> > > 7 groups of servers, each group gets rebooted on a specific weekday at
> > > 4am. (windows-servers, they reboot them before they crash!)
> > >
> > > If I change the check_period of the host to a timeperiod that
> > > excepts 3:30 - 4:30 I still get the notifications for all the services
> > > on the host, because nagios does not know, the host is down.
> > >
> > > If I change the notification_period of the host, Nagios stops checking
> > > the services when the host is down, but as some of them take a while to
> > > boot, I get the notifications after the host is up again but not yet
> > > completelly up.
> > >
> > > Can I somehow do a periodic scheduled downtime without using cron?
> > >
> > > Cheers
> > > 	Klaus
> > >
> > >
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