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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Correct. The former will cause notifications to remain disabled until told otherwise; the latter only for as long as specified. You should read up on the difference between Fixed and Flexible scheduled downtime while you’re at it.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>If you want service/host checks disabled, you need to select that option from the web GUI (or drop that command into nagios.cmd).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Cheers<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Steve Onotsky</span><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Team Lead, Server Support</span><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Broadridge</span><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Investor Communication Solutions, Canada</span><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>5970 Chedworth Way</span><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Mississauga ON L5R 4G5</span><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Tel: (905) 507-5328</span><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Fax: (905) 507-5312</span><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Inet: </span><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><a href="mailto:steve.onotsky@broadridge.com"><span style='font-size:8.0pt'>steve.onotsky@broadridge.com</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><i><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>The purpose of the universe is to explore the realm of possibility. <o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><i><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Our purpose is to witness it. - S. James Gates Jr.</span></i><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 4.0pt'><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Marco Borsani [mailto:m.borsani@it.net] <br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, November 19, 2012 10:11 AM<br><b>To:</b> NAGIOS<br><b>Subject:</b> [Nagios-users] little question about disable notification and schedule downtime<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>Hi all<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>Reading for the first time the docs it seems that these 2 options do the same thing. Is it ?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>Is the only difference that the first one disable the notification forever, while the other only in a particular timeperiod ?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>Both do not stop the service checks.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Marco Borsani<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#FFC000'>Unix and Monitoring Sysadmin<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#FFC000'>Technical Operations Dpt.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=IT style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>tel: +39 010 4310115<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=IT style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>fax: +39 02 30130311<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=IT style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>cell: +39 329 5953944<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=IT style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>ITnet Srl<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=IT style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Societą con socio unico<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=IT style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Direzione e Coordinamento di Libero S.r.l.</span><span lang=IT style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=IT><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></div><br clear="both">
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