down-times for hosts?

[Olaf Greis]

how does a sceduled downtime efect eventhandlers?
are those suppressed as well?

brdgs
  olaf

Am Dienstag, 24. September 2002 15:57 schrieb Russell Scibetti:
> The way nagios handles downtime (assuming you are talking about entering
> in scheduled downtime) is as a suppression of notifications, not a
> suppression of checks.  If you put a host into a scheduled downtime, the
> service check will occur still.  If that service is down, nagios will
> then do a host check.  If the host is down (the downtime has begun), it
> will show that the host is down.  But when it goes to do the
> notification, it checks to see if the host is in a period of downtime.
>  Since it is, the notifications will not go out, but the host will be in
> a down state, not assumed OK.
>
> This is actually beneficial if the downtime ends and for some reason a
> problem still exists.  The host or service should have come back up but
> hasn't.  So instead of having to go through all the retries (if you have
> retries set up), the host/service is already in a Hard non-OK state, so
> you will get notified after the first check.



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