services for hostgroups : disable notifications for hosts that are shutdown during the night ?

[Andreas Ericsson]

On 07/13/2011 10:16 AM, ghoulsblade wrote:
> hi all !
> 
> i have services linked to hostgroups like http/mail/linuxbasechecks/...
> but some servers are shutdown over night, and others continue to run 24hours
> i don't want to get notifications for the servers that are shutdown
> during the night.
> 
> do i really have to dublicate all services and make a 24h variant and a
> workhours only variant or is there a more elegant solution like
> 

Services will inherit their check and notification periods from the
host if none is specified for the service, so if you just remove
those variables from the services and set it properly for the hosts,
everything should work the way you want it to.

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