How to stop the Nagios Temporarily

[11abbidoa]

So we are going to capture a cold clone of the Nagios server and we need to shut it down to do it.
Whenever we shutdown the Nagios Server and power it on again, it will bombard us with a lot of alerts.
How to prevent this? Scheduled downtime? Anything that is much easier or faster?

[cnorell]

11abbidoa,

Scheduled Downtime is going to be your best bet I think. If you're not aware of it, you can mass schedule downtime by navigating to Home > Incident Management > Mass Downtime.

Best Regards,

Cory Norell

[sgardil]

So we are going to capture a cold clone of the Nagios server and we need to shut it down to do it.
Whenever we shutdown the Nagios Server and power it on again, it will bombard us with a lot of alerts.
How to prevent this? Scheduled downtime? Anything that is much easier or faster?

Thanks for reaching out @abbidoa.

Like Cory mentioned scheduling downtime will probably be the best since it doesnt allow for you to forget to turn them back on. If you want something faster and that is one click you can disable notifications, the only thing with that is that you would need to remember to reenable them afterwards. To do so you can go to admin and under system information go to Monitoring Engine Status. There is a dashlet on that page for monitoring engine process and in that find notifications and disable it, then when you are done just go to the same location and reenable them.

[11abbidoa]

This one right?

[sgardil]

This one right?

Yup thats the one. If you click the x next to notifications it should run a job to disable notifications. You will have to go back in and repeat this (it will be a check mark to turn it back on) to get your notifications back afterwards.

[11abbidoa]

This one right?

Yup thats the one. If you click the x next to notifications it should run a job to disable notifications. You will have to go back in and repeat this (it will be a check mark to turn it back on) to get your notifications back afterwards.

Alright will do this, we attempted to upgrade our Nagios. We set up a scheduled downtime to all hosts, we shutdown the nagios server to capture cold clone but still generated a thousand alerts when we powered it up. Hope this button wont generate that alerts once we try to upgrade again.

[sgardil]

Alright will do this, we attempted to upgrade our Nagios. We set up a scheduled downtime to all hosts, we shutdown the nagios server to capture cold clone but still generated a thousand alerts when we powered it up. Hope this button wont generate that alerts once we try to upgrade again.

Hey @11abbidoa just wanted to check in on how the upgrade went and did disabling the notifications via the monitoring dashlet do the job for you?