Re: [Nagios-users] How to deal with hosts that are not always on

2012-08-30 Thread Patrick Morris
On 7/29/2012 1:51 AM, Marc Haber wrote: Hi, I have a number of hosts that are not always turned on, such as my Notebook, my home server (which sleeps if not used) and a number of test VMs. To get a reasonable volume of checks in my test installation of Nagios, I would like to have those

Re: [Nagios-users] How to deal with hosts that are not always on

2012-08-30 Thread Werner Flamme
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Marc Haber [29.07.2012 10:51]: Hi, I have a number of hosts that are not always turned on, such as my Notebook, my home server (which sleeps if not used) and a number of test VMs. To get a reasonable volume of checks in my test installation of

Re: [Nagios-users] How to deal with hosts that are not always on

2012-08-30 Thread Marc Haber
On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 03:34:49AM -0700, Patrick Morris wrote: On 7/29/2012 1:51 AM, Marc Haber wrote: I have a number of hosts that are not always turned on, such as my Notebook, my home server (which sleeps if not used) and a number of test VMs. To get a reasonable volume of checks in my

Re: [Nagios-users] How to deal with hosts that are not always on

2012-08-30 Thread Marc Haber
On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 01:11:45PM +0200, Werner Flamme wrote: we use action handler scripts to schedule downtime in this case. very dirty hack, but neat. Thanks. Greetings Marc -- - Marc Haber | I don't trust

Re: [Nagios-users] How to deal with hosts that are not always on

2012-07-30 Thread Assaf Flatto
If a host i down in known time period ,than create a new time period for that host to be monitored and exclude it from the 24x7 default time definition. you can also put your hosts in scheduled downtime - this will still show as faults on the CGI , but for reporting it will not have any impact

[Nagios-users] How to deal with hosts that are not always on

2012-07-29 Thread Marc Haber
Hi, I have a number of hosts that are not always turned on, such as my Notebook, my home server (which sleeps if not used) and a number of test VMs. To get a reasonable volume of checks in my test installation of Nagios, I would like to have those machines monitored by it. Obviously, I have