"Kill switch" to suspend notifications for all hosts/service

[teledataict]

Hello
We're a WISP in Ghana, West Africa. We use Motorola Canopy & OFDM wireless radios for our backhaul/backbone and list mile. The network is a flat layer-2 network. Sometimes we experience packet flooding on the network and Nagios sends out hundreds of WARNING & CRITICAL notifications, as it should. Is there a way to temporarily stop ALL notifications for all hosts and services quickly without shutting the box down?

Gregory

[admin]

From the main "Home menu"...

1. Select the "Process Info" link under the "Monitoring Process" menu section
2. Click the gray "X" in the "Monitoring Engine Process" dashlet next to the "Notifications" item

Notifications will now be disabled on a program-wide basis.

Hope that helps.

[teledataict]

It works perfectly. Thanks!
Gregory

[rdedon]

Please feel free to contact us again if you have any additional issues.

Thanks!

[jon.bilderback]

Is there a way to do this from the command line, so that I can add it as a cron job on the server?

[nscott]

It sounds like you'd want to do something using a Nagios Core command. Check this page, its old but still relevant.

http://old.nagios.org/developerinfo/ext ... mmand_id=7

[jon.bilderback]

FYI, for anyone else wanting to use those scripts, the last line is incorrect for the nagios VM.

The location of printf is : /usr/bin/printf

[scottwilkerson]

Thanks for letting everyone know.