Different configurations for backup times

[Eric Pearce]

I had a similar problem with my backups, as they looked like a disk problem 
to the nagios plugin.  I turn off notifications before the backup:

/usr/bin/su - nagios -c /usr/local/bin/wget --quiet -O - --post-data 
'cmd_typ=23&cmd_mod=2&host=yourhost&service=yourservice&btnSubmit=Commit' 
http://nagioserver/nagios/cgi-bin/cmd.cgi

and then turn them back on when it is done:

+ /usr/bin/su - nagios -c /usr/local/bin/wget --quiet -O - --post-data 
'cmd_typ=22&cmd_mod=2&host=yourhost&service=yourservice&btnSubmit=Commit' 
http://nagiosserver/nagios/cgi-bin/cmd.cgi

password is stored in .wgetrc

The other advantage of this is that the backup time can vary, and you don't 
have to change anything on the Nagios server.  The client knows best when it 
is running a backup.

-e

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark Krenz" <mark at suso.org>
To: <nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net>
Sent: Thursday, May 14, 2009 6:07 AM
Subject: [Nagios-users] Different configurations for backup times


>
>  Hi, I recently reconfigured my nagios setup to monitor a lot more
> things on my servers and its mostly working ok, but I'm running into
> issues where I'm getting tons of notifictions during times that backups
> are running.  Which is overnight of course.  The notifications happen
> because the load on each machine will go up and sometimes a TCP
> connection will fail for a few minutes.  I realize that this is really a
> problem I need to deal with on my servers and I'm working on that too,
> but I was wondering how I could tell nagios to be less agreesive
> overnight.
>
> From reading docs and looking at configuration files, I can only see
> that I'd need to duplicate all my host and service entries so that they
> notify a different contact group that has a different contact schedule.
> Is this right or is there another better way?
>
>
> -- 
> Mark S. Krenz
> IT Director
> Suso Technology Services, Inc.
> http://suso.org/
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