External Command, scheduled downtime

[alex at reseau.nl]

I've been investigating Nagios for a while now.

I had the last stable, beta1 and now beta2 installed.

I have problems scheduling Service and Host downtime using external
commands. I haven't used it before and started with it in beta1.

I have seen that multiple people have had this issue, though they
never got a reaction. I hope I will because I don't have much time
left for this investigation and using external commands to schedule
downtime is critical in our system.

When I use the Addon nagdtsched i get a message in the Event log:

[2005-02-11 11:08:10] EXTERNAL COMMAND:
SCHEDULE_SVC_DOWNTIME;linux1;PING;1108137600;1108195200;1;57600;nagios;Regularly
Scheduled Dowtime

but nothing shows up in the 'Downtime' page. If I schedule downtime
via the webinterface then everythign goes ok.

I tried echo-ing to var/rw/nagios.cmd myself and that worked like
above. And both external commands for host and service downtime don't
work. I first tried all of this in beta1, but hoping beta2 might have
it fixed i installed that over 1, but that didn't help either.

What I am using this for is to create performance data during business
hours. But I want those hours defined in nagios, not in the data
processing. I found out that I can use a macro that shows the
downtime level, so i can easily use that calculating performance
myself.
It would help if there was a variant to the service&host notification
hour settings. But this works just as well.

Regards,
Alex Haan

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