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<BODY style="MARGIN: 4px 4px 1px; FONT: 12pt Tahoma">>>> Ben Conrad <BConrad@passkey.com> 5/25/2005 10:41 AM >>><BR>
<DIV style="COLOR: #000000">>Hello,<BR>Hi.<BR></DIV>
<DIV style="COLOR: #000000">>To silence the alerts while I was working the problem I went into each<BR>>service and "Acked" the down service. Is that the only (fastest/most<BR>>efficient) way to Ack a bunch of services on a single host?<BR></DIV>
<DIV style="COLOR: #000000">You can select the host (enter name on left side) and then select "Disable notifications for all services on this host", then you have the option of "Disable for host too".</DIV>
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<DIV style="COLOR: #000000">>I'm doing a rollout tomw night, all these services will be down or in<BR>>various states of availability. What is the best way to silence 7 services<BR>>accross 10 web hosts?</DIV>
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<DIV style="COLOR: #000000">You can do the same as above for a hostgroup or service group. Even better, you could schedule flexible downtime for all services in a group. From the schedule downtime for services page:</DIV>
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<DIV style="COLOR: #000000">"This command is used to schedule downtime for all services in a particular servicegroup. During the specified downtime, Nagios will not send notifications out about the services. When the scheduled downtime expires, Nagios will send out notifications for the services as it normally would. Scheduled downtimes are preserved across program shutdowns and restarts. Both the start and end times should be specified in the following format: <B>mm/dd/yyyy hh:mm:ss</B>. If you select the <I>fixed</I> option, the downtime will be in effect between the start and end times you specify. If you do not select the <I>fixed</I> option, Nagios will treat this as "flexible" downtime. Flexible downtime starts when a service enters a non-OK state (sometime between the start and end times you specified) and lasts as long as the duration of time you enter. The duration fields do not apply for fixed dowtime. Note that scheduling downtime for services does not automatically schedule downtime for the hosts those services are associated with. If you want to also schedule downtime for all hosts in the servicegroup, check the 'Schedule downtime for hosts too' option."<BR><BR>>Thanks!<BR>HTH!</DIV>
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