Schedule downtime for a host from a commandline/script

[lois54]

Hi all
I hope this is not an FAQ or something. I have looked but do not see this anywhere.
I would like to set a host to a "scheduled down time" state from a script. I am working on automating patching and often forget to do this step which can annoy my coworkers. Is there anyway to do this? I am writing my script in bash but I can also do perl or python. We are using Nagios version 3.0.3 currently. Thanks for your help.

Peace,
Lois
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Lois Bennett, MSEE
Senior System Administrator
Channing Laboratory
Brigham & Women's Hospital
A Teaching Affiliate of
Harvard Medical School and
Harvard School of Public Health

[jsmurphy]

You can use whatever language you want, but here is an example in bash: http://old.nagios.org/developerinfo/ext ... and_id=119

Hopefully that helps

[slansing]

Jsmurphy has a great answer, and there are also other great examples such as this one:

http://exchange.nagios.org/directory/Ad ... er/details

And here is a link to the Nagios Exchange page on Scheduled Downtime:

http://exchange.nagios.org/directory/Ad ... d-Downtime

[lois54]

Thanks everyone. I am happy that this was so straight forward.

Peace,
Lois

[slansing]

Glad to see we had a solution for you, thanks for confirming!