How to deal with hosts that are not always on

[Assaf Flatto]

If a host i down in known time period ,than create a new time period for 
that host to be monitored and exclude it from the 24x7 default time 
definition.

you can also put your hosts in scheduled downtime - this will still show 
as faults on the CGI , but for reporting it will not have any impact as 
it is " deliberate downtime"



On 29/07/12 09:51, Marc Haber wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a number of hosts that are not always turned on, such as my
> Notebook, my home server (which sleeps if not used) and a number of
> test VMs. To get a reasonable volume of checks in my test installation
> of Nagios, I would like to have those machines monitored by it.
>
> Obviously, I have notifications for those hosts turned off. This,
> however, leads to non-zero numbers in the critical, warning and
> unknown fields in the CGI, which gives a wrong impression of my health
> status since it is normal and expected that those hosts/services are
> down.
>
> Is there any solution for this dilemma? Can I have Nagios monitor
> hosts without reporting them as down when they are down?
>
> I know this may sound strange, but I would like to have statistics
> about how long the machines have been up and when.
>
> Greetings
> Marc
>


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