<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:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2004/12/omml" 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 12 (filtered medium)"> <style>  </style>  </head> <body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple> <div class=Section1> Shai,<o:p></o:p> The example scripts are actual scripts that you can use..for example:<o:p></o:p> <a href="http://www.nagios.org/developerinfo/externalcommands/commandinfo.php?command_id=36">http://www.nagios.org/developerinfo/externalcommands/commandinfo.php?command_id=36</a><o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> #!/bin/sh<o:p></o:p> # This is a sample shell script showing how you can submit the DISABLE_HOST_SVC_NOTIFICATIONS command<o:p></o:p> # to Nagios. Adjust variables to fit your environment as necessary.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> now=`date +%s`<o:p></o:p> commandfile='/usr/local/nagios/var/rw/nagios.cmd'<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> /bin/printf "[%lu] DISABLE_HOST_SVC_NOTIFICATIONS;host1\n" $now > $commandfile<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> <o:p> </o:p> <o:p> </o:p> That is the ‘example’ script.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Just create a file and name it whatever you want..for me I use the hostname in the file name. DISABLE_HOST_SVC_NOTIFICATIONS_HOSTNAME, then chmod the file for execution: chmod u+x DISABLE_HOST_SVC_NOTIFICATIONS_HOSTNAME<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Edit the file and replace host1 with the hostname that you want to affect, the hostname has to be spelled the same way that it is in your .cfg file. Now you can either run the file manually when you want a downtime, or set it to run in a cronjob. For you since you want a large list of hosts that you want to disable notifications, then try the disable hostgroup script. <o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> ~Jayson<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> <div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'> From: Shai [mailto:shaibn@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2009 8:53 AM To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] downtime large number of hosts?<o:p></o:p> </div> <o:p> </o:p> <div> Hi, I've seen the help on the nagios external command, but I'm not exactly sure how to make the script. Can someone show me an example? Shai<o:p></o:p> <div> On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 5:12 PM, Jayson Broughton <<a href="mailto:jbroughton@truecos.com">jbroughton@truecos.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p> We have some linux servers here that peg-out on CPU/Mem when they are doing a full backup, so I have used the wonderful 'Nagios External Command List' website to custom tailor my alert notifications for hosts/hostgroups every day during a certain time. Specifically the DISABLE_HOST_SVC_NOTIFICATIONS and DISABLE_HOST_SVC_CHECKS. Then when it's time to re-monitor, a crontab entry runs: ENABLE_HOST_SVC_NOTIFICATIONS & ENABLE_HOST_SVC_CHECKS. Check out those 4 options on: <a href="http://www.nagios.org/developerinfo/externalcommands/commandlist.php" target="_blank">http://www.nagios.org/developerinfo/externalcommands/commandlist.php</a> The examples give you an excellent base script to work off of. ~Jayson<o:p></o:p> <div> <div> -----Original Message----- From: Marc Powell [mailto:<a href="mailto:marc@ena.com">marc@ena.com</a>] Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2009 8:05 AM To: Nagios Users Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] downtime large number of hosts? On Jan 8, 2009, at 8:51 AM, Mahmoud Hanafi wrote: > Is there a easy way to schedule down time for large number of hosts/ > services at the same time? The downtime web interface doesn't accept > wildcard characters. If they are all in the same hostgroup you can click on the hostgroup name (in ()'s) and schedule downtime for all of them at once, otherwise, no not that I am aware of outside of some simple scripting to send the appropriate external command for each host through the external command file. -- Marc ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. 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