schedule downtime in the past

[smoren]

Hello,

is there any way to schedule downtime in the past? I'd like to be able to schedule downtime on 'Schedule Downtime' page and enter both Start and End time in the past. When I try to do it, it seems nagios planned it, but nothing is entered into database...

Reason for this is that we provide some reports to management about availability of services. But sometimes, when we have a planned downtime for particular service, responsible persons forget to enter it in advance into nagios as scheduled downtime. And just because of this, availability of services is not as good as it should be.

Thanks.

[avandemore]

No, it is not possible to schedule downtime in the past.

Availability reports are generated based upon data in log files in the directories /usr/local/nagios/var/ and /usr/local/nagios/var/archives/.

[smoren]

This is not the answer I was hoping for , nevertheless expected.

As far as I know, you consider to change the way how availability is calculated to the one based on data in database. Do you think this behavior (or feature, if you like) could then be possible?
Thanks.

[avandemore]

Actually the state changes are also calculated from the same places. You can find the logic for it here:

https://github.com/NagiosEnterprises/na ... gi/avail.c

I think the way this is currently stored is under evaluation, so what you are requesting may be easier to do in the future. Presently the only way of doing this would be to alter the log files.