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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I'd like to be able to remotely turn off/turn on
service/host checks. For example, a remote machine could turn off a
service check while running a backup and turn it back on after it is done.
Ideally, this is a simple perl script, wrapper for 'wget', batch file, etc that
could run on Unix or Windows (maybe using SSL for securing the
password?). I assume it would talk directly to cgi on the
nagios server. I've seen some others asking for something similar,
but no definitive replies. My understanding of NSCA is that is
simply for collecting passive information, and can't actually change
things, right?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Yes, I could schedule downtime via Nagios, but the
downtime is of variable length, the so the exact backup window is not known in
advance. The machine doing the actual backup "knows
best" when turn monitoring on and off. NFS mounting the
nagios command file is not an option. I did see the old
remote_ctl.pl script on nagiosexchange but I don't want to
do anything non-standard on the nagios server if possible. I
understand that I could use ssh to run local commands on nagios server, but
I'm looking for something more elegant.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>My setup is Linux server running Nagios 3.0.6
and 1.4.13 plugins monitoring Linux, Solaris and Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista/2008
hosts.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thanks</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>-e</FONT></DIV>
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