-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Lee Azzarello wrote: > I would think of this as more of a policy question than a technical > one. If a large number of hosts and services are going down often > enough for you to need a batch processing script to trigger nagios to > recognize down time, perhaps your monitoring plan could be altered? > You can define a check time period that only watches for critical > states when the hosts are expected to be online. You can also change > which services are checked for the group of hosts that have a high > amount of maintenance periods.
It's not a common occurrence by any means, but it does happen. For instance, we have a scheduled downtime each year when the power system is worked on, parts replaced, etc. During that downtime, a large number of devices will be down, and it would be nice to be able to schedule them all down in one fell swoop. > -lee - -- - --------------------------- Jason Frisvold Network Engineer frisv...@lafayette.edu - --------------------------- "What I cannot create, I do not understand" - Richard Feynman -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with CentOS - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFJlZbhO80o6DJ8UvkRAmDsAJ9WuaAQ8UxE5DTiv/0yXpTjSzHypgCffV4t 0GbNrOBL8W6w9G08F/azpHE= =UrqG -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _______________________________________________ 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
