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<DIV><SPAN class=072000714-24092002><FONT color=#0000ff><FONT size=2><SPAN
class=664430814-24092002>As Russell mentioned, 'scheduling downtime' only
suppresses notifications, so doing this WILL affect your statistics if the
host/service is down during the timeperiod in question. <SPAN
class=072000714-24092002><FONT color=#0000ff><FONT size=2>I believe that the
best way to accomplish what you want to do would be to create a timeperiod that
does NOT include the downtime. Then, use this timeperiod for the 'check_period'
in your service definitions.<SPAN class=664430814-24092002> If none of the
services on a host are being checked during a certain time, they should not
appear as down, and therefore the host will not be checked either.
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<DIV><FONT size=2>Garry W. Cook, CCNA<BR>Network Infrastructure
Manager<BR>MACTEC, Inc. - <A target=_blank
href="http://www.mactec.com/">http://www.mactec.com/</A><BR>303.308.6228
(Office) - 303.881.5157 (Mobile)<BR></DIV></FONT>
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size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> Russell Scibetti
[mailto:russell@quadrix.com]<BR><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, September 24, 2002 7:57
AM<BR><B>To:</B> Nicole Hähnel<BR><B>Cc:</B> Nagios<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re:
[Nagios-users] down-times for hosts?<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>The way nagios
handles downtime (assuming you are talking about entering in scheduled
downtime) is as a suppression of notifications, not a suppression of checks.
If you put a host into a scheduled downtime, the service check will
occur still. If that service is down, nagios will then do a host check.
If the host is down (the downtime has begun), it will show that the host
is down. But when it goes to do the notification, it checks to see if
the host is in a period of downtime. Since it is, the notifications will
not go out, but the host will be in a down state, not assumed OK.<BR><BR>This
is actually beneficial if the downtime ends and for some reason a problem
still exists. The host or service should have come back up but hasn't.
So instead of having to go through all the retries (if you have retries
set up), the host/service is already in a Hard non-OK state, so you will get
notified after the first check.<BR><BR>-Russell<BR><BR>Nicole Hähnel
wrote:<BR>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hi,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>what is the best way to specifiy down times for
server/services?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Nagios should not check the service and assume
up for this time.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>It should not affect uptime
statistics.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Gruss</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Nicole</FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><PRE class=moz-signature cols="$mailwrapcol">--
Russell Scibetti
Quadrix Solutions, Inc.
<A class=moz-txt-link-freetext href="http://www.quadrix.com">http://www.quadrix.com</A>
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