Recurring downtime: necessary to restart nagio s to reread the downtime.log?

[Ned Hanks]

I ran into the same problem and figured out that I needed to send a downtime
command to the command file, /usr/local/var/rw/nagios.cmd
 
I got this script from somebody of this list Sorry, can't remember who but
would like to thank that person. 
 
#!/bin/bash
 
# $1 host scheduled for downtime
# $2 time to start scheduled downtime
# $3 length in minutes of downtime
# $4 fixed flag - see Nagios documentation - defaults to 0

USER1=/usr/nagios
 
now=$(date +%s)
host=$1
from=$(date --date="$2" +%s)
duration=$3
till=$(($from+$duration))

fixed=0

if [ ! -z "$4" ]
then
   fixed=$4
fi
 
echo "[$now]
SCHEDULE_HOST_DOWNTIME;$host;$from;$till;$fixed;$duration;Nagios
Cron;Scheduled Downtime" >> $USER1/var/rw/nagios.cmd



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Ned D Hanks
IT Manager
Geneva Steel, LLC
10 South Geneva Rd
Vineyard, UT 84058
Office: 801-227-9182
Fax: 801-227-9400
  

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lhill at groupit.com
Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2004 1:43 PM
To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [Nagios-users] Recurring downtime: necessary to restart nagios to
reread the downtime.log?



I have a cronjob append a new downtime to the downtime.log and comments.log
each night. Although the log is getting updated correctly, Nagios does not
recognize the downtime until I restart the service. OTOH, it does reread the
comment.log, so those messages get added to the comments list each night. I
understand the need for restart to reread cfg files, but am I missing
something concerning getting Nagios to reread the downtime.log? 

Thanks, 

Lance Hill
GroupIT
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