Notifications and Time Period Management

[tbmay]

Nagios XI 2012R2.9
CentOS 6.5

Hi,

I'm disabling e-mail notifications during Windows updates on our Windows servers because we have them rebooting and the CPU spikes, etc. We don't want all those alerts in our e-mail.

So, I created an exclusion with Time Period Management, and another Contact Group and added the exclusion to this group. I'm Changing the contact group in the XI configuration.

My question is, when the time period expires, will the alerts flood our inboxes. Are they being queued up, or will it behave as I want?

Thanks a million for your help.

[scottwilkerson]

No, they don't queue up, however, why not schedule recurring downtime for these hosts/services?

[tbmay]

Thank you. I didn't know it was possible. Can you tell me where to do that? I see where I can put a Start Time and an End Time with options like fixed, flexible. Etc. But I don't see an option for making it recurring.

Thanks a million for your help.

[tbmay]

Edit:

I see it now. Thank you.

[tbmay]

If I use this utility, and add just a host without adding any services, can I expect all services associated with that host to be squelched also. Obviously I hope that's the case.

Thanks again for your help.

[tbmay]

Edit:

I see how it works. You can close the thread.