Different configurations for backup times

[Anthony Montibello]

I always use a daily cron script/s to setup Downtime schedual to handle that
issue.
the flexable downtime, may be better if the hosts always recover within X
min while Fixed is better if you know the host will go down at X and e back
up at Y

http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/downtime.html



On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 12:37 PM, Eric Pearce <epearce at amberpoint.com>wrote:

> I had a similar problem with my backups, as they looked like a disk problem
> to the nagios plugin.  I turn off notifications before the backup:
>
> /usr/bin/su - nagios -c /usr/local/bin/wget --quiet -O - --post-data
> 'cmd_typ=23&cmd_mod=2&host=yourhost&service=yourservice&btnSubmit=Commit'
> http://nagioserver/nagios/cgi-bin/cmd.cgi
>
> and then turn them back on when it is done:
>
> + /usr/bin/su - nagios -c /usr/local/bin/wget --quiet -O - --post-data
> 'cmd_typ=22&cmd_mod=2&host=yourhost&service=yourservice&btnSubmit=Commit'
> http://nagiosserver/nagios/cgi-bin/cmd.cgi
>
> password is stored in .wgetrc
>
> The other advantage of this is that the backup time can vary, and you don't
> have to change anything on the Nagios server.  The client knows best when
> it
> is running a backup.
>
> -e
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mark Krenz" <mark at suso.org>
> To: <nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net>
> Sent: Thursday, May 14, 2009 6:07 AM
> Subject: [Nagios-users] Different configurations for backup times
>
>
> >
> >  Hi, I recently reconfigured my nagios setup to monitor a lot more
> > things on my servers and its mostly working ok, but I'm running into
> > issues where I'm getting tons of notifictions during times that backups
> > are running.  Which is overnight of course.  The notifications happen
> > because the load on each machine will go up and sometimes a TCP
> > connection will fail for a few minutes.  I realize that this is really a
> > problem I need to deal with on my servers and I'm working on that too,
> > but I was wondering how I could tell nagios to be less agreesive
> > overnight.
> >
> > From reading docs and looking at configuration files, I can only see
> > that I'd need to duplicate all my host and service entries so that they
> > notify a different contact group that has a different contact schedule.
> > Is this right or is there another better way?
> >
> >
> > --
> > Mark S. Krenz
> > IT Director
> > Suso Technology Services, Inc.
> > http://suso.org/
> >
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