Determining the success or failure of external commands

[Andreas Ericsson]

Scott Sanders wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am working on implementing some functionality that will allow me to safely
> expose nagios.cmd to external hosts. In my environment there are maintenance
> tasks that run periodically which disrupt certain services, causing nagios
> to start generating alerts. Needless to say, I am tired of having my cell
> phone go crazy when this happens.

In that case, why not ask "How do I keep my cellphone from waking me up?"?
Instead, you've thought up a solution to your problem, which generates
other problems, and now you want help solving those other problems.

Assuming you know when these disruptive tasks are run, you should simply
create a notification_period that doesn't include the sensitive hours
and use that notification_period for the services being disrupted.

There are other solutions too, but this one is normally the recommended,
so I suggest you try that out first.

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