<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Anthony Montibello wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:c4515bfd0905151953y6f3bcac4j93a25bd4554f96df@mail.gmail.com" type="cite"> <div>I always use a daily cron script/s to setup Downtime schedual to handle that issue.</div> <div>the flexable downtime, may be better if the hosts always recover within X min while Fixed is better if you know the host will go down at X and e back up at Y </div> <div> </div> <div><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/downtime.html">http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/downtime.html</a></div> <div> </div> </blockquote> Here is a script that I use that schedules downtime for a host/service You could run it out of your backup pre-script Modify it for your needs #!/bin/bash # # This script is used to submit downtime to Nagios # see the usage function for info on how to use it . /opt/maj/standard #================================ CONFIG ===================================== # location of nagios config file nagios_cfg=/etc/nagios/nagios.cfg echocmd="/bin/echo" # get the current date/time in seconds since UNIX epoch datetime=`date +%s` author="$0" #--------------------------------- AUTO CONFIG ------------------------------- # you should not need to change this # get the name of the nagios command file nagios_cmd=`awk -F= '/^command_file/ {print $2}' $nagios_cfg` if [ ! -p "$nagios_cmd" ]; then echo "Got Nagios CMD file as \"$nagios_cmd\" and it is not a valid command file" exit 1 fi #================================ FUNCTIONS ===================================== #-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- usage () { cat << EOT Usage: $0 -h HOST -s SERVICENAME -c COMMENT -a "STARTTIME" -b "ENDTIME" where HOST is the name of the host that this downtime is for SERVICENAME is the name of the service that this downtime is for This is optional. If excluded we schedule downtime for the host COMMENT is the comment associated with the downtime STARTTIME format is the same as accepted by the date --date=STRING command eg "now", "+30 minutes", "6 months 15 day", "2007-09-01 16:00:00" ENDTIME as for STARTTIME EOT exit 1 } #-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- write_to_cmd_file () { # create the command line to add to the command file # sample format: # SCHEDULE_SVC_DOWNTIME;mail.optusnet.com.au;SMTP;1188879530;1188880130;1;0;7200;Matthew Jurgens;COMMENT # if $servicename is set it will supply its own ; cmdline="\[$datetime\] $downtime_cmd;$host;$servicename$starttime_sec;$endtime_sec;1;0;$duration;$author;$comment" # append the command to the end of the command file `$echocmd $cmdline >> $nagios_cmd` } #-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #================================ MAIN ===================================== # ---------- GET Options [ $# -ge 1 ] || usage # Check for options while getopts h:s:c:a:b: OPT do case $OPT in h) host=$OPTARG ;; s) servicename=$OPTARG ;; c) comment=$OPTARG ;; a) starttime=$OPTARG ;; b) endtime=$OPTARG ;; *) usage ;; esac done shift `expr $OPTIND - 1` if [ -z "$host" -o -z "$comment" -o -z "$starttime" -o -z "$endtime" ]; then usage fi if [ -z "$servicename" ]; then # we schedule downtime for the host downtime_cmd="SCHEDULE_AND_PROPAGATE_TRIGGERED_HOST_DOWNTIME" else # we schedule downtime for the service downtime_cmd="SCHEDULE_SVC_DOWNTIME" # add a ; to the end of the servicename so that it fits the correct syntax servicename="$servicename;" fi # convert starttime and endtime to seconds starttime_sec=`date --date="$starttime" +'%s'` endtime_sec=`date --date="$endtime" +'%s'` if [ "$starttime_sec" -a "$endtime_sec" ]; then # work out the duration let duration=endtime_sec-starttime_sec write_to_cmd_file else echo "ERROR:Starttime or Endtime date format not correct" fi <div class="moz-signature">-- <a href="http://www.smartmon.com.au">Smartmon System Monitoring</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.smartmon.com.au">www.smartmon.com.au</a> </div> </body> </html>