Detecting Windows Backups?

[Joseph L. Casale]

>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.

Check/notification schedules, but if you find a way to drop a host into maintenance
mode programmatically, post back! I have wanted to know how to do this. I haven't
looked in to it much, but I assume one could do it with the cgi's?



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