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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial>You could use a time exclusion in nagios.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr><FONT size=2 face=Arial>In your time periods, make a copy of 24x7 calling it something different and use the exclusion.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Then, with your server/services, change the notification_period to that new time period to avoid receiving notifications during the reboot.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT size=2 face=Arial>example, if you want to exclude notifications from 2am-3am, you would do this:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT size=2 face="Courier New">define timeperiod{<BR> timeperiod_name windows-update<BR> alias windows-update<BR> sunday 00:00-24:00<BR> monday 00:00-24:00<BR> tuesday 00:00-24:00<BR> wednesday 00:00-24:00<BR> thursday 00:00-24:00<BR> friday 00:00-24:00<BR> saturday 00:00-24:00<BR> exclude reboot<BR> }<BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr><FONT size=2 face="Courier New">define timeperiod{<BR> timeperiod_name reboot<BR> alias reboot<BR> saturday 02:00-03:00<BR> }<BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Nagios will still show host and service messages, but won't send notifications in that time period.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT size=2 face=Arial><A href="http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/objectdefinitions.html#timeperiod">http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/objectdefinitions.html#timeperiod</A></FONT></DIV>
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<FONT size=2 face=Tahoma><B>From:</B> Les Fenison [mailto:les@deltatechnicalservices.com]<BR><B>Sent:</B> Sat 11/21/2009 4:46 PM<BR><B>To:</B> Nagios Users Mailinglist<BR><B>Subject:</B> [Nagios-users] How to Schedule regular weekly downtime?<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<P><FONT size=2>I am monitoring a server that runs windows update and reboots every week<BR>on Saturday at the same time. Is there any way to schedule this<BR>downtime without having to go enter it every week manually?<BR><BR><BR>------------------------------------------------------------------------------<BR>Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day<BR>trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on<BR>what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with<BR>Crystal Reports now. <A href="http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july">http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july</A><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>Nagios-users mailing list<BR>Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net<BR><A href="https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users">https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users</A><BR>::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue.<BR>::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null<BR></FONT></P></DIV></BODY></HTML>