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Hi

I would like disable notification automatically if the host or service is down or critical for more than 8 hours
Please some one help me to run the command in cronjob

Thanks
Varalakshmi

Rather than complicating things with a cron job, why not just set the total number of notifications to be the number you want by using escalations?

Set the "notification_interval" to zero, which means Nagios will only send out one notification for the service. Then use escalations to only send notifications until 8 hours has passed.

You can find information about escalations at http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/escalations.html.

If you really want to go with the cron job, you need to use the Nagios API, documented here: http://old.nagios.org/developerinfo/ext ... ndlist.php. You are looking for http://old.nagios.org/developerinfo/ext ... mmand_id=6 and http://old.nagios.org/developerinfo/ext ... mmand_id=5 (DIASBLE_SVC_CHECK and ENABLE_SVC_CHECK).

varalakshmi, did eloyd's post clear things up for you?