Send scheduled downtime notification for host group

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ar0431
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Send scheduled downtime notification for host group

Post by ar0431 »

Hi Nagios Team,
How I can send scheduled downtime notification for host group only not for all hosts in the host group.

For example.
I have host group "linux-hosts" which have 10 linux machines.
When I schedule a downtime of "linux-hosts" group, it send notification for all hosts which are include in host group "linux-hosts". So I received 10 scheduled downtime notifications. It should send only one downtime notification for host group "linux-group".

Is this possible ?
ssax
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Re: Send scheduled downtime notification for host group

Post by ssax »

That's currently the way the functionality works because you can't assign contacts/contactgroups to hostgroups. It has to get them from the hosts/services to know who to notify about them. There isn't currently a way to stop that from occurring outside of disabling downtime notifications all the contacts except the one you want it to send downtime notifications to.
ar0431
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Re: Send scheduled downtime notification for host group

Post by ar0431 »

Ok, but there should be "group notification" as well. Please try to add this functionality in your future release. It will be handy to reduce scheduled downtime notifications alerts.
ar0431
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Re: Send scheduled downtime notification for host group

Post by ar0431 »

I just found that in this scenario, we can use "Host Escalation Management" but unfortunately there is no option for "scheduled downtime" in "Escalation Options". If you add "scheduled downtime" option then we can send one scheduled downtime notification to contacts/contactgroups for the one hostgroup.
ssax
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Re: Send scheduled downtime notification for host group

Post by ssax »

I have submitted this feature request to development requesting they add this:

https://github.com/NagiosEnterprises/na ... issues/836

Please keep in mind that the decision to implement the enhancement is at the discretion of our development team.

Thank you!
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