Periodic downtime of a server

[Klaus Umbach]

On 22/09/08 12:24, Assaf Flatto wrote:
> 
> If you defined the time periods and associated  the servers to them , you should not get any alerts 
> for them at all .

I associated them with the hostgroup.
 
> What version of nagios are you running ?


3.0.3


> 
> 
> 
> 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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