Nagios Support Forum

Hi,

What is the best way to handle scheduled maintenance? I am trying to prevent Nagios alerting during monthly monthly, is it just a case of service nagios stop, I know the Nagios admin page allows you to stop Nagios services so what would be the order to stop the monitoring, backend, graphing services or does it not matter? And would it alert when services are restarted.

Are you talking about scheduled maintenance on the Nagios server, or other servers?

If you're talking about other servers, you can access the Home->Scheduled downtime, or the Home->Recurring Downtime pages to tell Nagios when you're having planned downtime. Nagios will suppress any alerts during the scheduled downtime window.

I am going to use Home->Recurring Downtime page, can I use wildcards to indicate downtime for all hosts and all services being monitored by nagiosxi?

Unfortunately you can't use a wildcard there.

The best bet would be to go to
Home -> Process Info
and click the X next to notification at the start of the downtime, then click the "check" at the end.
there isn't any real need to shut the rest down however from the same location you could disable active checks as well.


I know this isn't automated, but could be with external commands on a cron job
http://old.nagios.org/developerinfo/ext ... mmand_id=7
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