<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40" xmlns:v = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word"><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2668" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE>@font-face { font-family: Tahoma; } @page Section1 {size: 8.5in 11.0in; margin: 1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in; } P.MsoNormal { FONT-SIZE: 12pt; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Times New Roman" } LI.MsoNormal { FONT-SIZE: 12pt; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Times New Roman" } DIV.MsoNormal { FONT-SIZE: 12pt; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Times New Roman" } A:link { COLOR: blue; TEXT-DECORATION: underline } SPAN.MsoHyperlink { COLOR: blue; TEXT-DECORATION: underline } A:visited { COLOR: purple; TEXT-DECORATION: underline } SPAN.MsoHyperlinkFollowed { COLOR: purple; TEXT-DECORATION: underline } SPAN.EmailStyle17 { COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-style-type: personal } SPAN.EmailStyle18 { COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-style-type: personal-reply } DIV.Section1 { page: Section1 } </STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY lang=EN-US vLink=purple link=blue> <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.</DIV> <DIV> </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!</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>-Ben.</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader dir=ltr align=left>-----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? </DIV> <DIV class=Section1> 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-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: medium none; PADDING-LEFT: 4pt; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; BORDER-LEFT: blue 1.5pt solid; PADDING-TOP: 0in; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none"> <DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center> <HR tabIndex=-1 align=center width="100%" SIZE=2> </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: 5pt; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 5pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in"> -----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></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>