skip monitoring every 4 weeks

[Kevin Keane]

What you are describing is, in more generic terms, a maintenance window.

I'm actually using a very different approach for the same basic problem:
I schedule downtime for that maintenance window. Now Nagios doesn't
support recurring scheduled downtimes directly. The solution is a script
(this one has hardcoded 2 hours scheduled downtime - change as needed).

#!/bin/bash
# schedules downtime for the host given in $1

now=$(date +%s)
read host
read comment

# the host may need to be capitalized. To find the correct version,
parse the Nagios config files:
fixed_host=$(grep -ri "host_name.*$host" /etc/nagios/objects | uniq |
awk '{ print $3; }')

NAGIOSCMD="[$now]
SCHEDULE_AND_PROPAGATE_TRIGGERED_HOST_DOWNTIME;$fixed_host;$now;$(($now+7200));1;0;7200;Kevin 

Keane;$comment"
echo -e $NAGIOSCMD "\n" > /var/spool/nagios/nagios.cmd

In my case, the backup script also calls this one. You may instead want
to use cron, or you could invoke it from a shutdown script in the server
being rebooted, remotely via ssh.



Assaf Flatto wrote:
> Hello 
>
> I have a situation where i need to turn of monitoring for server while they are being rebooted , 
> this is done during the weekend , and the person doing the reboots is not one that has access to
> the nagios .
>
> i know that Version 3 placed the functionality of alternating and dynamic scheduling in the 
> timeperiods definitions , but after reading the online documentation , i'm not realy clear on ho i 
> can achieve my gaol.
>
> I need the monitoring for a server to be stopped during a period (specific times TBD ) every 4th 
> weekend , (Sunday or Saturday , again yet to be determined ).
>
> I understand that I need to define a time period and add an "exclude"  to the time period the host 
> in question has defined .
>
> My issue is with the correct format of the "skipped" timeperiod .
> Is what I'm defining below correct in format and functionality  - if not in strict content  ?
>
> define timeperiod{
>        timeperiod_name weekend-off
>        Sunday /28              00:00-24:00
>        }
>
> define timeperiod{
>        timeperiod_name box-reboot
>        use             24x7
>        exclude         offweekend
> }
>
>
> Thanks
>
>
>   


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