[PATCH] - Schedule (host + all services )downtime via extinfo.cgi

[Thomas Guyot-Sionnest]

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Christoph Maser wrote:
> Am Freitag, den 11.09.2009, 15:35 +0200 schrieb Thomas Guyot-Sionnest:
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>> Ton Voon wrote:
>>> In Opsview, if someone sets a downtime for the host, we use this
>>> extcommand to set all the services in downtime too. We can't think of a
>>> valid reason to not do that, so I agree that it should be available.
>> I disagree, I can't think of a valid reason to do that (besides
>> reporting with I don't use at that level). Since host downtime suppress
>> service notifications, why bother with services?
> 
> 
> Because the host is up much earlier than the services. It happens quite
> often that you get alarms after a reboot because the host is up already
> and the service is still starting.

That's not the point here. If your host is in a fixed scheduled
downtime, notifications will be suppressed for all services too until
the downtime finish.

It's true that with flexible downtime you can get alerts after the host
gets back up, which is why I don't use them for hosts. Maybe Nagios
could get smarter and redo all check attempts for all non-ok services
after a flexible host downtime finishes. My fear with that though is
that a service running very spaced checks could get way past the
downtime period without notifications, so that special case would have
to be handled nicely too :(

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Thomas
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