Periodic downtime of a server

[Klaus Umbach]

On 22/09/08 11:26, Assaf Flatto wrote:
> It seems that you need to make dependencies for the services on the host status to limit the amount 
> of notifications .
> Also it is possible - if you have a set interval for each group ( set schedule ) you can define a 
> time period for each group to be checked.

I already have defined specific timeperiods. I don't want to limit the
notifications, I don't want to be notified at all between 3:30 and 4:30, no
matter if the host or a service has a problem.



> 
> # 'exchange-servers' timeperiod definition
> define timeperiod{
>         timeperiod_name exchange
>         alias           exchange reboot time 
>         sunday          00:00-24:00
>         monday          00:00-03:00,04:30-24:00
>         tuesday         00:00-24:00
>         wednesday       00:00-24:00
>         thursday        00:00-24:00
>         friday          00:00-24:00
>         saturday        00:00-24:00
>         }
> 
> And that will help you have a sorted and set schedule for each reboot time.
> 
> Assaf
> 
> On Monday 22 September 2008 09:47:04 Klaus Umbach wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > How to I configure a periodic downtime of a server?
> >
> > My scenario:
> >
> > 7 groups of servers, each group gets rebooted on a specific weekday at 4am.
> > (windows-servers, they reboot them before they crash!)
> >
> > If I change the check_period of the host to a timeperiod that
> > excepts 3:30 - 4:30 I still get the notifications for all the services on
> > the host, because nagios does not know, the host is down.
> >
> > If I change the notification_period of the host, Nagios stops checking the
> > services when the host is down, but as some of them take a while to boot, I
> > get the notifications after the host is up again but not yet completelly
> > up.
> >
> > Can I somehow do a periodic scheduled downtime without using cron?
> >
> > Cheers
> > 	Klaus
> >
> >
> >
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