Everyday scheduled downtime

[Sam Terburg - Luna.nl]

i did the following:

in /etc/crontab:
00 6    * * *   nagios  /usr/local/bin/schedule_downtime hostname
servicename "tomorrow 01:00" 3600

/usr/local/bin/schedule_downtime:
now=`date +%s`
host="$1"
service="$2"
from=`date --date="$3" +%s`
duration=$4
till=$(($from+$duration))

echo "[$now]
SCHEDULE_SVC_DOWNTIME;$host;$service;$from;$till;1;$duration;Cron;automatic
downtime scheduled from cron" >>/var/run/nagios/nagios.cmd


Greetings,

Sam Terburg
Luna.nl


Martin Mielke wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I can't find the right options to tell Nagios not to check a host on a
> known period of time because the system is rebooted everyday at a
> certain time (please don't ask me why... our customer wants this). So,
> how would I tell Nagios not to perform system/service checks on a host
> everyday at 05:00 AM? Because now it's generating false-positives and
> sending a lot of "down / recovery" emails...
>
>
> Thanks and regards,
> Martin
>
>
>
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