<DIV>Just add some scripting to the customers scripts that will execute an expect or perl script that;</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>cat "DISABLE_SVC_CHECK;Name_of_object;PING" >> nagios.cmd </DIV> <DIV>Do tail -f nagios.cmd file for more examples..... Jason Martin <jhmartin@toger.us> wrote:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I have a situation where I need to script arbitrarily-long downtime and am not quite sre how to approach it. I have an application that spans several machines. Every night a script is lauched by someone that shuts down the application, and some hours later anothe script is executed to start it back up again. The customer would like alarms squelched during thd downtime, but re-enabled as soon as the application is back up. The downtime is different every night depending on what sort of mainenance is being performed. For that reason the simple solution of making the notification / check periods exclude the maintenance window won't work. Scheduling downtime doesn't work very well either since the scri pt that brings the application down won't know how long it will be down. I could modify the app-specific plugins to look for a 'flag-file' touched by the shutdown script and removed by the startup script and always return OK if they see it, but that feels like a hack-ish solution. I also can't disable all checks / notifications as this Nagios instance is monitoring several applications with disparate maintenance windows. Has anyone had experience with such a situation? Thanks, - -Jason Martin -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.3.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: pgpenvelope 2.10.2 - http://pgpenvelope.sourceforge.net/ iD8DBQFAfAzCl2ODWuqVSBMRApZ4AKCV8qsl04vA/WqwGHxv6+nhTvx6NACfTBmo htzcwcTuQ0hu6NGesGIvXk4= =pvXi -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robb ins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null</BLOCKQUOTE> <hr size=1>Do you Yahoo!? <a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=23609/*http://promotions.yahoo.com/design_giveaway/static/index2.html">Yahoo! Small Business $15K Web Design Giveaway</a> - Enter today