<html xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"> <head> <meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 11 (filtered medium)">  <style>  </style> </head> <body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple> <div class=Section1> I wrote this myself, and considering I’ve been learning perl over the last few months writing scripts to make nagios a much easier tool to use, I feel a little worried about submitting anything considering how new I am at it. J<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> I have written scripts to add hosts, remove hosts, schedule downtime, a few plugins, a script to turn off blocks of checks quickly, make new services that I commonly add quickly.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> The nfs mounts script, I ended up using check_by_ssh to call it, I wanted to verify that all nfs mounts in fstab were mounted, considering if I put something in fstab, I want it to be up at all times. That’s how I determine if something is important enough to check.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> So it checks for what’s an nfs mount in fstab, then verify’s that there is at least 1 file inside of the mount. <o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> I did this because I wanted to pick up stale instances, and other messages easily. I had tried a few other methods, but they didn’t end up giving me what I wanted.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> I’ll attach the script, but this was the first perl script I wrote, and I haven’t updated it since then with anything additionally I may know. It’s always worked for me, but if anyone has any suggestions or pointers, please send them my way.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> <o:p> </o:p> <div style='border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 4.0pt'> <div> <div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'> <hr size=2 width="100%" align=center tabindex=-1> </div> From: Ben Polson [mailto:ben.polson@ehealth.com] Sent: Friday, July 15, 2005 1:53 PM To: Nathan Oyler; Ginther, Demian M; nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] Downtime for ALL hosts and services on system?<o:p></o:p> </div> <o:p> </o:p> <div> Excellent points. I generally don't do maintenance on every single monitored server so I've set up simple group disabling scripts for blocks of servers based on our various environments.<o:p></o:p> </div> <div> <o:p></o:p> </div> <div> You mentioned your nfs mount scripts and I am wondering what kind of tests you run to verify these mounts. I'm in the process of writing my own nfs mount check currently, but would prefer to not have to go through this if there's already one available out there. Did you write this yourself, or have I missed something in my Googleing? Thanks!<o:p></o:p> </div> <div> <o:p></o:p> </div> <div> -Ben.<o:p></o:p> </div> <blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:5.0pt'> -----Original Message----- From: Nathan Oyler [mailto:noyler@khimetrics.com] Sent: Friday, July 15, 2005 1:46 PM To: Ben Polson; Ginther, Demian M; nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] Downtime for ALL hosts and services on system?<o:p></o:p> Because it’s sloppy, and if you schedule downtime you can actually watch what’s happening through nagios as things go up and down, and verify everything is up during the window.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> I have nfs mount scripts that it’s always nice to verify are actually up before having messages start flying off again. Especially when people outside of IT get messages.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> I wrote a perl script to schedule downtime. I used a bash script on nagiosexchange.org to base the idea on, and it’s been extremely helpful for every downtime since.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> <o:p> </o:p> <div style='border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 4.0pt'> <div> <div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'> <hr size=2 width="100%" align=center tabIndex=-1> </div> From: nagios-users-admin@lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-admin@lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Ben Polson Sent: Friday, July 15, 2005 1:36 PM To: Ginther, Demian M; nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] Downtime for ALL hosts and services on system?<o:p></o:p> </div> <o:p> </o:p> <div> Why not just stop nagios if you want to stop monitoring/alerting everything during the window?<o:p></o:p> </div> <div> <o:p></o:p> </div> <div> -Ben.<o:p></o:p> </div> <blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:5.0pt'> -----Original Message----- From: nagios-users-admin@lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-admin@lists.sourceforge.net]On Behalf Of Ginther, Demian M Sent: Friday, July 15, 2005 1:23 PM To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Nagios-users] Downtime for ALL hosts and services on system?<o:p></o:p> We sometimes do a weekend maintenance of all systems being monitored. Instead of having to add a downtime for each and every host and service, does anyone know of a good way or has written a good plugin to schedule downtime for all hosts and services?<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Maybe a list of all hosts and services with checkboxes and a time input widget?<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> I may try to write something to do this, but I don’t want to duplicate effort.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Thanks<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Demian<o:p></o:p> </blockquote> </div> </blockquote> </div> </div> </body> </html>