<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META NAME="Generator" CONTENT="MS Exchange Server version 5.5.2656.60"> <TITLE>RE : RE : [Nagios-users] Scheduling downtime</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY> > From: Marc Powell [<A HREF="mailto:marc@ena.com">mailto:marc@ena.com</A>] > > > You don't have to create the file 'downtime.dat'. It is > managed by the > > nagios daemon. And the information you are missing is that > a scheduled > > downtime must be set from the outside via some undocumented > external > > commands : > > Huh? I schedule downtime through the web interface all the > time... > The > OP made no mention of wanting to do it outside the Nagios GUI > and indicated that it would be done by a 'user' intimating > the use of the GUI. Maybe I'm wrong but, as the question told about 'user permissions' to be able to submit downtimes, I thought that he wanted to do it from an external program. Of course, if it is a real 'human' user, with an account to access the CGI interface, this should be the preferred way. If the action should be done from the outside (unattended), you can use the 'automated downtime schedulers addons' of nagiosexchange as examples because they all use these commands to submit recurring downtimes every day. </BODY> </HTML>