Detecting Windows Backups?

[Max Hetrick]

On 10/12/2010 08:16 AM, Kevin Keane wrote:
> I’m wondering if there is a way to detect if a Windows backup is
> currently running. Every night during the backup window, my checks for
> disk and CPU activity go haywire. That is expected, of course.
>
> What I’m looking for is a way to get Nagios to either automatically
> schedule a downtime when the backup starts, or to use a service
> dependency or something like that to suppress these false alarms.

I had to dig up the link for the script I use for scheduling downtime 
remotely.

Anyways, if you know your backup times are always the same, or always 
the same window, I'd just use a cron job to run this nagios_downtime 
script written in Perl.

http://nagios.larsmichelsen.com/nagios-downtime/

Regards,
Max



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