Downtime for the operator

[Youngblood, Gregory (SAIC)]

As a new user of nagios, my only semi-complaint is the apparent requirement
to restart nagios after any config file changes. I wish there was a way,
through the web interface, to make nagios queue a command to reread its
config, similar to how a retest of all the services on a host can be
scheduled (and forced).

A second nice thing would be the option to have all of configuration saved
in a database, requiring only the information to connect to the database to
be in a text file.

As time permits, and I work with it more, I might try to work on these. In
the mean time, I am fairly impressed with nagios. I've already written
several active and passive tests for my environment, and am working on more
as we speak. To all the developers ... a job well done! 

An idea to create the requested "downtime" feature, without having to change
anything in the nagios config files, would be to use an email alias (or
virtual email address) in nagios for the delivery of notifications. When
your going to be away and don't want the messages delivered, then the alias
can be redirected to /dev/null if the messages can be dropped, or to another
regular email address if the messages should be kept for review later. 

Greg

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marc Powell [mailto:marc at ena.com]
> Sent: Thursday, August 05, 2004 9:34 AM
> To: László Csaba Ferenc; nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] Downtime for the operator
> 
> 
> ----Original Message----
> From: László Csaba Ferenc [mailto:smokey at aquaticum.hu]
> Sent: Thursday, August 05, 2004 9:12 AM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Nagios-users] Downtime for the operator
> 
> > It's a pity, that nagios doesn't have an option for setting the
> > operator a downtime... I use an email alert to get sms 
> messages on my
> > cell phone, and now i'm off for vacation, and now i could use a
> > downtime :)   
> > 
> > Ok, i know i can set my email address to nothing, but that's not the
> > same :)))
> 
> Change your contact notification_period to none. A basic 
> assumption is that if you tell nagios that you're a 
> notification contact for a service, you want to get notified 
> about it when there's a problem ;) Exceptions to that are few 
> and far between for the majority of users so there isn't an 
> option in the GUI to disable notification on a per-contact basis.
> 
> --
> Marc
> 
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