Scheduled host downtime and "unhandled services" in "Tactical Overview"

[Carl Friend]

   G'day folks,

   My immediate Management have begun to take notice of the Nagios
implementation we've been running for the past two years, and now
want to use it as a "management dashboard" to identify potential
problems.  Now, whilst Nagios is a superb tool for the technician,
it's not so hot for non-technical folks who, in this case, tend
to lose control of their bodily functions when they see something
in red on a screen.

   Here's the quandry:  If we put a host into "scheduled downtime"
one would expect that the services would go into the same state,
and, in point of fact, they *do* from the standpoint of notifications;
however, in the "Tactical Overview" page, services on hosts that are
in scheduled downtime show up as "unhandled" and are in that nice
bright red colour that makes Managers go positively bats.

   Is there a way to have the "host downtime" automatically set the
services on that host for scheduled downtime as well?  I looked
through the doco, but nothing lept out at me, and I figured it'd
be easier to ask than to immediately go and hack code.

   Thanks in advance!

   Cheers.

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| Carl Richard Friend (UNIX Sysadmin)     | Natick, Massachusetts, USA |
| Minicomputer Collector / Enthusiast     |                 01760-2098 |
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