https://www.icinga.org/2013/12/19/icinga-2-v0-0-6-featuring-recurring-downtimes/
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Our development cycles now last ~3 weeks, where we work on a defined
feature set whilst fixing bugs and improving overall performance. This
time, the new release comes with changes that may render previous
configuration and state files invalid – please check the Changelog for
details.
0.0.6 adds a new major feature to Icinga 2: Built-in ScheduledDowntime
configuration objects can be used to set up recurring downtimes for
services.
Imagine the following scenario: Your host will use a load service to
check its performance at a regular interval. At night during backup, an
increase in load may induce warning/critical check results and trigger
alert notifications. While you can still schedule one downtime manually
in advance or use external scripts and a cron job to schedule downtimes,
it would be reasonable to plan your maintenance for a defined time range
using a scheduled downtime.
Define a ScheduledDowntime template and set the time ranges, the author
and the auto-generated comment:
template ScheduledDowntime "backup-downtime" {
author = "icingaadmin",
comment = "Scheduled downtime for backup",
ranges = {
monday = "02:00-03:00",
tuesday = "02:00-03:00",
wednesday = "02:00-03:00",
thursday = "02:00-03:00",
friday = "02:00-03:00",
saturday = "02:00-03:00",
sunday = "02:00-03:00"
}
}
Add a new entry “backup” as scheduled_downtimes entry in the service
definition and use the previously defined template. This works in the
same way as notification declarations.
object Host "localhost" inherits "linux-server" {
services["load"] = {
templates = [ "generic-service" ],
check_command = "load",
scheduled_downtimes["backup"] = {
templates = [ "backup-downtime" ]
}
}
}
Please note that only the first downtime is active within a given range
and shown in the user interfaces.
Enjoy the new scheduled downtimes in Icinga 2! :-) Download Icinga 2
0.0.6 and report any bugs to our development tracker and send us your
test feedback in our community support channels or with a comment below.
CHANGE LOG
* Scheduled Downtimes as configuration object (also known as "Recurring
Downtimes").
* Log command arguments
* Performance improvements for the config compiler
* Config validation provides stats at the end
* icinga2-enable-feature lists already enabled features
* Add support for latency statistics to IcingaCheckTask
* Implement support for using custom attributes as macros
* StatusDataWriter update interval as config attribute
* Improve performance with fetching data for status.dat/objects.cache,
DB IDO and Livestatus
* Livestatus History Table performance improvements
Changes
* Generated object names (host with services array) use an exclamation
mark instead of a colon
as seperator. State file objects with downtimes, comments, etc are
invalid (unknown) for that
reason.
* Script variables are set using 'var' and 'const' instead of the
previous 'set' identifier
* ITL constants are now embedded in libicinga
* Removed the ConsoleLogger object and keep the default console log
enabled until we daemonize
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