<div>I always use a daily cron script/s to setup Downtime schedual to handle that issue.</div>
<div>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 </div>
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<div><a href="http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/downtime.html">http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/downtime.html</a></div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 12:37 PM, Eric Pearce <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:epearce@amberpoint.com">epearce@amberpoint.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote style="BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; PADDING-LEFT: 1ex" class="gmail_quote">I had a similar problem with my backups, as they looked like a disk problem<br>to the nagios plugin. I turn off notifications before the backup:<br>
<br>/usr/bin/su - nagios -c /usr/local/bin/wget --quiet -O - --post-data<br>'cmd_typ=23&cmd_mod=2&host=yourhost&service=yourservice&btnSubmit=Commit'<br><a href="http://nagioserver/nagios/cgi-bin/cmd.cgi" target="_blank">http://nagioserver/nagios/cgi-bin/cmd.cgi</a><br>
<br>and then turn them back on when it is done:<br><br>+ /usr/bin/su - nagios -c /usr/local/bin/wget --quiet -O - --post-data<br>'cmd_typ=22&cmd_mod=2&host=yourhost&service=yourservice&btnSubmit=Commit'<br>
<a href="http://nagiosserver/nagios/cgi-bin/cmd.cgi" target="_blank">http://nagiosserver/nagios/cgi-bin/cmd.cgi</a><br><br>password is stored in .wgetrc<br><br>The other advantage of this is that the backup time can vary, and you don't<br>
have to change anything on the Nagios server. The client knows best when it<br>is running a backup.<br><font color="#888888"><br>-e<br></font>
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Sent: Thursday, May 14, 2009 6:07 AM<br>Subject: [Nagios-users] Different configurations for backup times<br><br><br>><br>> Hi, I recently reconfigured my nagios setup to monitor a lot more<br>> things on my servers and its mostly working ok, but I'm running into<br>
> issues where I'm getting tons of notifictions during times that backups<br>> are running. Which is overnight of course. The notifications happen<br>> because the load on each machine will go up and sometimes a TCP<br>
> connection will fail for a few minutes. I realize that this is really a<br>> problem I need to deal with on my servers and I'm working on that too,<br>> but I was wondering how I could tell nagios to be less agreesive<br>
> overnight.<br>><br>> From reading docs and looking at configuration files, I can only see<br>> that I'd need to duplicate all my host and service entries so that they<br>> notify a different contact group that has a different contact schedule.<br>
> Is this right or is there another better way?<br>><br>><br>> --<br>> Mark S. Krenz<br>> IT Director<br>> Suso Technology Services, Inc.<br>> <a href="http://suso.org/" target="_blank">http://suso.org/</a><br>
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