Scripting downtime

[Marc Powell]

Jason Martin <mailto:jhmartin at toger.us> wrote:
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> On Tue, 13 Apr 2004, Marc Powell wrote:
> > > instance is monitoring several applications with disparate
> > > maintenance windows. 
> > > 
> > > Has anyone had experience with such a situation?
> > 
> > Why not have the shutdown script submit the
> > DISABLE_SVC_NOTIFICATIONS external command to Nagios and the
> > startup script submit the ENABLE_SVC_NOTIFICATIONS external
> > command? Seems like a very straightforward, service specific and
> > workable solution, especially as you seem to indicate that those
> > scripts have access to your nagios hosts file system (if it's NFS
> > it probably won't work). 
> 
> They don't currently, but it would be easy enough to give the script
> that access (ssh or something I suppose).  Or, can you recommend a
> tool to help with this?  


I don't but ssh sounds like a good solution if you're comfortable with
that from a security standpoint. That's probably the path I would take
given the same task in our environment.

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Marc



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