Disable a group

[JohnFLi]

I was asked by one of the other system admins here if it's possible to disable notifications of all services (hosts included) for a group of hosts.

the purpose is so that when they are applying windows patchs, they only want to click on somethign once to disable the alerts for when it comes reboot time.

I saw that if I made some hosts a child of another, I can disable the host, and child hosts but it doesn't say anything about the services.


any ideas?

[tmcdonald]

Wouldn't that just be scheduled downtime?

http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/downtime.html

The first filter for host or service notifications is a check to see if the host or service is in a period of scheduled downtime. If it is in a scheduled downtime, no one gets notified. If it isn't in a period of downtime, it gets passed on to the next filter. As a side note, notifications for services are suppressed if the host they're associated with is in a period of scheduled downtime.

[JohnFLi]

but that is one host at a time.

they are looking for something similar to clicking "disable notification all services for this host" (include host too) but for a group of hosts, not just one.

[tmcdonald]

If you go to Hostgroup Summary, then click the hostgroup name (in parentheses) you will see a "Schedule downtime for all hosts in this hostgroup" link:

http://192.168.1.150/nagios/cgi-bin/ext ... ux-servers

The full list of commands:

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Schedule downtime for all services in this hostgroup
Enable notifications for all hosts in this hostgroup
Disable notifications for all hosts in this hostgroup
Enable notifications for all services in this hostgroup
Disable notifications for all services in this hostgroup
Enable active checks of all services in this hostgroup
Disable active checks of all services in this hostgroup

Same goes for service groups.

[JohnFLi]

outstanding...... never thought about clicking on there

THank you