1) Create a time period that excludes the hours you do not want to be monitoring those hosts. 2) assign those hosts to a host group 3) assign a ping test with the modified timeperiod to those hosts .
Andrew Thompson wrote: > > Hi all, > > I have all my servers (approx. 70) monitored by PING using the 24x7 > time period and notifications set to 24x7. > > Im happy with this as I want to know when my servers go down at all > times as a lot are critical and under strict SLA’s. > > However I have the need to exclude notifications for 1 physical host > and 6 virtual hosts that sit on this physical host during the hours of > 00:30-06:30 every night. > > These machines are not under any SLA and often reboot during the night > for various reasons and I’m done with waking up at all hours for these > non-critical servers! > > What is the quickest way for me to exclude these 7 hosts from > notifying during these hours whilst leaving all other servers at 24x7? > > Ive had a read the nagios docs but it didn’t really help me as I > didn’t really understand it. > > I have edited my server.cfg to show the scenario I want to achieve and > that can be found at the link below. > > http://dl.dropbox.com/u/895609/servers.cfg > > The layout etc is identical to my live configs, I have just edited the > number of hosts/names/contacts etc (the 3 hosts named NOT CRITICAL are > the example for the “7 hosts” I first talked about) > > What is the quickest and most effective way for me to keep checking > ALL my servers 24x7 and notifying 24x7, BUT exclude 7 particular > servers from checks/notifications between 00:30-06:30 every night? > > Thanks in advance for your help. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Virtualization & Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning > Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing > also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. > http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Virtualization & Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ _______________________________________________ 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