External Command, scheduled downtime

[Andreas Ericsson]

alex at reseau.nl wrote:
> Was sent to nagios-users before, but i think it should have gone
> here..
> 
> I've been investigating Nagios for a while now, having tried the last
> stable, beta1 and now beta2.
> 
> 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 important 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 everything goes ok.
> 

Syntax might have changed. I believe nagdtsched was written for nagios 
1.x. Read the docs and make the necessary adjustments.

> 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.
> 

Provided you echo the proper string when nagios is running it can't 
possibly fail to work since that is, in a way, exactly what the cmd.cgi 
does.

> I have to admit that for this trial I don't have time to use this
> anyway. But if we continue this, then we would like to schedule
> downtime automatically.
> 
> Also.. somewhere I came acros a patch or something, so that services
> would be scheduled to be down when the host is. It could be that that
> was for notification-hours only though. Nagios does support scheduling
> downtime to children to host, it would be interesting to have the host
> automatically increase its services 'downtime' field too.
> 
> Regards,
> Alex Haan
> 
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Andreas Ericsson                   andreas.ericsson at op5.se
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