Flexible downtime not working

[Claudio Kuenzler]

Well without blaming anyone, the easiest reason for this to cause would be
a human mistake in interpreting the schedule downtime form (often happens
with fixed/flexible) and by setting a wrong end date.
When you were in the Downtime overview, did you take a look at the
specified End Time column? What was written there before you clicked the
delete icon?

I suggest you go to your var/archives folder and check the logfile of April
1st for the external command, sth like this:

[1333358804] EXTERNAL COMMAND:
SCHEDULE_SVC_DOWNTIME;hostname;NTP;1333358695;1333365895;0;0;3600;Nagios
Admin;test flexible
[1333373670] EXTERNAL COMMAND:
SCHEDULE_SVC_DOWNTIME;hostname;SSH;1333373648;1333384448;1;0;7200;Nagios
Admin;test fixed

These timestamps tell you WHEN the external command was launched, when the
downtime starts and when the downtime ends.
Also, note the 0 and 1 behind the end timestamp. Integer 0 indicates a
flexible downtime, a 1 indicates a fixed scheduled downtime.

To answer your question: Yes, after the end of the scheduled downtime,
normal monitoring should have resumed.



On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 2:54 PM, Deborah Martin
<Deborah.Martin at kognitio.com>wrote:

> Hi Claudio, ****
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> Thanks for info. But I’m a little puzzled. ****
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> I clarified the steps that were taken. It turns out that he didn’t use
> Flexible but instead used fixed. However, he’s sure that the dates were set
> to 1st April for the start and end date. ****
>
> So, surely once the date changed to the 2nd April, at the very least,
> normal monitoring should have resumed or is that not correct ? ****
>
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> In fact I took your advice and removed the fixed downtime manually. ****
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> These are the nagios log entries I see for this service :-****
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> 04-01-2012 00:00:00****
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> 04-01-2012 06:00:00****
>
> 0d 6h 0m 0s****
>
> SERVICE OK (HARD)****
>
> 60 rows in dsa.mdf_reservation in last 10 minutes****
>
> 04-01-2012 06:00:00****
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> 04-01-2012 06:46:11****
>
> 0d 0h 46m 11s****
>
> SERVICE DOWNTIME START****
>
> Start of scheduled downtime****
>
> 04-01-2012 06:46:11****
>
> 04-01-2012 14:00:10****
>
> 0d 7h 13m 59s****
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> SERVICE CRITICAL (HARD)****
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> 0 rows in dsa.mdf_reservation in last 10 minutes****
>
> 04-01-2012 14:00:10****
>
> 04-02-2012 11:26:18****
>
> 0d 21h 26m 8s****
>
> SERVICE OK (HARD)****
>
> 331 rows in dsa.mdf_reservation in last 10 minutes****
>
> 04-02-2012 11:26:18****
>
> 04-02-2012 11:47:16****
>
> 0d 0h 20m 58s+****
>
> SERVICE DOWNTIME END****
>
> End of scheduled downtime****
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> The last entry is when I manually put the service back to normal
> monitoring. ****
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> Regards,****
>
> Deborah ****
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> *From:* Claudio Kuenzler [mailto:ck at claudiokuenzler.com]
> *Sent:* 02 April 2012 10:29
> *To:* Nagios Users List
> *Subject:* Re: [Nagios-users] Flexible downtime not working****
>
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>
> Hello Deborah,
>
> If you use Flexible Downtimes, don't forget to select "Flexible" from the
> Select-Menu (Type). Otherwise the fixed dates are taken (Start Date, End
> Date).
>
> To remove a host or service from a scheduled downtime, click on "Downtime"
> in the left navigation. There you can delete the wanted entry.
>
> cheers****
>
> On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 10:42 AM, Deborah Martin <
> Deborah.Martin at kognitio.com> wrote:****
>
> Hi, ****
>
>  ****
>
> We use Nagios 3.2.0 on SLES 10 SP2 to monitor a few hundred services. ****
>
>  ****
>
> Yesterday, we put a particular service into flexible downtime from around
> 7am to 2pm. However, it seems to still be stuck in flexible downtime so any
> alerts after 2pm haven’t been sent out. ****
>
>  ****
>
> I’m not entirely sure why this is happening as I’ve used this before and
> never had any problems. Has anyone come across this before ? Is there a way
> to kick this service back into normal monitoring ? ****
>
>  ****
>
> Thanks,****
>
> Deborah ****
>
>  ****
>
>
> ****
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