[Nagios-users] howto ignore down hosts

2011-09-28 Thread Albrecht Dreß
Hi, a dumb question - is it possible to ignore hosts which are down, i.e. no messages are sent if the machine is down, or goes up again, and no service checks are performed while the machine is down? When the box comes up again, the service checks should be run soon if possible. This would

Re: [Nagios-users] howto ignore down hosts

2011-09-28 Thread Michael Barrett
In your host definition set the notification_options so that it doesn't notify you when hosts go down/recover: notification_options d,u,r (remove the d r) On Sep 28, 2011, at 10:37 AM, Albrecht Dreß wrote: Hi, a dumb question - is it possible to ignore hosts which are down,

Re: [Nagios-users] howto ignore down hosts

2011-09-28 Thread Kimberly McKinnis
I believe you want to 'schedule downtime', which you set for a specific period of time. What I'm confused on is you said... if it comes up, and you want no notifications, but when it comes up *again*, you do? If a host is down, the service checks, by default, won't alert. C O N V I V A

Re: [Nagios-users] howto ignore down hosts

2011-09-28 Thread Paul M. Dubuc
On Sep 28, 2011, at 10:37 AM, Albrecht Dreß wrote: Hi, a dumb question - is it possible to ignore hosts which are down, i.e. no messages are sent if the machine is down, or goes up again, and no service checks are performed while the machine is down? When the box comes up again, the