Trying to reduce notifications during maintenance

[itadmins]

Hi All,

I'd like to find out what are the best ways to address some of the issues were experiencing

1) We disable notifications for a host when were doing maintenance on it, however we still get notifications about all of its services. Disabling all the services on a host can be tedious as some of them have 30+ services.

2) We have hypervisors, is there any easy way to disable notifications for the hypervisor and all of its VMs which are also added in nagios as hosts and their services.

3) Does parent/child and dependencies tie into this? If so can someone explain that and how they work.

Thanks!

[scottwilkerson]

This is the default behavior.

[scottwilkerson]

Now that you changed the message above, the default bahavios answer doesn't apply.

1) We disable notifications for a host when were doing maintenance on it, however we still get notifications about all of its services. Disabling all the services on a host can be tedious as some of them have 30+ services.

The better solution would be to put the host in downtime. This will stop all notifications from services as well

2) We have hypervisors, is there any easy way to disable notifications for the hypervisor and all of its VMs which are also added in nagios as hosts and their services.

You can setup parent child relationships so if the hypervisor is down or in downtime it will not send notifications for the children

3) Does parent/child and dependencies tie into this? If so can someone explain that and how they work.

Yes.
https://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nag ... ility.html

[itadmins]

Thank you! That worked!

Is it possible to disable the scheduled downtime notification email?

[scottwilkerson]

Yes, there is a setting per user.

Click username (upper right) -> Notification Preferences
uncheck downtime boxes under hosts and services