Schedule downtime for a host and its services

[Stuart Browne]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marc Powell [mailto:marc at ena.com]
> Sent: Friday, 25 September 2009 22:21
> 
> On Sep 25, 2009, at 6:29 AM, Angel L. Mateo wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> >
> > 	I am using nagios3 and I'm having problem scheduling downtimes
> > for hosts...
> >
> > 	The problem is that although I have schedule a downtime for a
> > host, nagios3 sends alerts for its services. But, as I understand,
> > if I scheduled the downtime for the host, the services should be
> > included in the downtime.
> 
> Correct. From personal experience and a quick peek at the code, nagios
> won't notify if the host is in scheduled downtime.
> 
> > 	Am I doing something wrong? Am I misunderstanding anything?
> 
> If the host really was in scheduled downtime during the event, my
> guess would be that you had multiple nagios daemons running. One that
> knew about the scheduled downtime and one that didn't.

Another possibility is that you've selected a 'Flexible' downtime period.  The Flexible downtime starts when the item with downtime marked fails, not when any of its children / services fail.

This is an issue a number of my co-workers get caught by.  I'm slowly training them ;)

Stuart

------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Come build with us! The BlackBerry® Developer Conference in SF, CA
is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your
developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay 
ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9-12, 2009. Register now!
http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconf
_______________________________________________
Nagios-users mailing list
Nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users
::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. 
::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null