Ignoring a host/service for a period of time

[Jim Avery]

2009/9/17 Kurktchiev, Boris <boris at unt.edu>:
> I have a couple of hosts that I am monitoring that reboot or restart and it
> takes them about 30 minutes to be fully operational again. Is there a way to
> tell nagios to ignore certain services/hosts every day? Only way I can think
> of right now is to define custom time periods for every single service, but
> that seems a very roundabout way of doing it... Anyone have a better way
> that I am just not seeing?

I wouldn't say this is better ... just different.

You might instead consider setting up a repeating scheduled outage for
those services.  You'll find various tools to help you do this
on Nagios Exchange.  The one I use (and would heartily recommend) is
http://exchange.nagios.org/directory/Addons/Scheduled-Downtime/downtime_sched/details

hth,

Jim

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