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Hello everyone,

I have a question about what happens in the background when I use the "Disable checks of all services on this host" link on the Nagios Core web interface for a specific host.

How does Nagios know to keep it disabled? Is there a config file where the change is made, like a flag changed? Or does the host that was changed sit in a variable?

I'm hoping it's as simple as a flag being set. The reason I ask is I'm looking for a way for my bash script to differentiate between a disabled host vs an enabled host (Which I cannot use the web interface to determine).

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

I think that you can pass that through the nagios command pipe via a script if you would like, it essentially stops nagios from scheduling checks for that object ID. I believe this change is pushed to:
And flips the following to 0 or 1 depending on what you tell it:
http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/extcommands.html
http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/ ... ml#cmd_cgi

slansing wrote:I think that you can pass that through the nagios command pipe via a script if you would like, it essentially stops nagios from scheduling checks for that object ID. I believe this change is pushed to:

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/usr/local/nagios/var/status.dat

And flips the following to 0 or 1 depending on what you tell it:

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   active_service_checks_enabled=1
        active_host_checks_enabled=1

http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/extcommands.html
http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/ ... ml#cmd_cgi

Thank you so much slansing. That was exactly what I was looking for.

I'll be closing this thread now, but feel free to open another if you need anything in the future!