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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi all,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I have all my servers (approx. 70) monitored by PING using the 24x7 time period and notifications set to 24x7.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Im happy with this as I want to know when my servers go down at all times as a lot are critical and under strict SLA’s.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">However I have the need to exclude notifications for 1 physical host and 6 virtual hosts that sit on this physical host during the hours of 00:30-06:30 every night.
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<p class="MsoNormal">These machines are not under any SLA and often reboot during the night for various reasons and I’m done with waking up at all hours for these non-critical servers!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">What is the quickest way for me to exclude these 7 hosts from notifying during these hours whilst leaving all other servers at 24x7?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Ive had a read the nagios docs but it didn’t really help me as I didn’t really understand it.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I have edited my server.cfg to show the scenario I want to achieve and that can be found at the link below.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/895609/servers.cfg">http://dl.dropbox.com/u/895609/servers.cfg</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The layout etc is identical to my live configs, I have just edited the number of hosts/names/contacts etc (the 3 hosts named NOT CRITICAL are the example for the “7 hosts” I first talked about)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">What is the quickest and most effective way for me to keep checking ALL my servers 24x7 and notifying 24x7, BUT exclude 7 particular servers from checks/notifications between 00:30-06:30 every night?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks in advance for your help.<o:p></o:p></p>
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