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Yes, please feel free to lock it up (unless this is something i can do from here?).

Thank you again for the help.

Understood.

Thank you @dwhitfield and everyone else for your time and for providing valuable support for free.

Best wishes for 2017.

Thank you @dwhitfield and @rkennedy.

Would there be macros similar to $HOSTSTATE$ and $SERVICESTATE$ that would evaluate against a host or service suppression status? This would really solve the problem.

The OS I'm using is RHEL Server release 5.3 and the Nagios version is 4.0.7.

Thank you for your help @rkennedy. Is there any nagios documentation you'd recommend on the topic of implementing a system that interprets the logic mentioned by @mcapra ? Looks as if I'll need to be working with a few background system files in order to be able to execute actions when host suppress...

Apologies if I'm not explaining myself right, When we use the nagios GUI to disable (or enable) monitoring, it is my understanding that in the background a certain instruction is triggered to write onto the command file, such as: /bin/printf "[%lu] DISABLE_HOST_CHECK;host1\n" $now > $comma...

Thank you for your reply. Indeed event handlers might not be the best option. I've got monitoring services on a remote host. These services can only be suppressed/unsuppressed by running certain scripts. I'd like to use the nagios GUI to trigger these scripts, effectively disabling/enabling monitori...

Good Morning, Is it possible to configure event handlers for hosts according to their monitoring status of disabled or enabled? I.e. If I disabled or activated monitoring for a host, could an event handler be triggered accordingly? From what I've been reading it looks as if event handlers are very u...