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We have an outage that will take down an entire environment tonight. I tried to schedule downtime but it looks like you can only do a single service or host at a time and I have over 600 services! Any idea on how to schedule downtime for everything at once? Nagios Core has something about extinfo.cgi which looks promising but I see no instructions on how to use that.

In CCM create a hostgroup that has * as it's members.
Save and apply.
Home > Details > Hostgoup Summary
For the hostgroup you just created, click the icon "View Hostgroup Commands"
Here you can do:

• Schedule Downtime For All Hosts In This Hostgroup
  Schedule Downtime For All Services In This Hostgroup

I would do both.

Does this help?

So I go to add all hosts to a hostgroup and all services to a service group but all the available hosts/services are greyed out and have a "=>" in front of all. I see from the notes that this means "Denotes object relationship elsewhere". What can I do next?

Please ignore, all the hosts and services were already in the groups that I needed. Thanks for the info, that was exactly what I needed.

You should be able to select * at the bottom of the list, instead of selecting all the individual hosts.

You should only need to create one hostgroup, you won't need to create a servicegroup as the command "Schedule Downtime For All Services In This Hostgroup" will do all services for all hosts.

What version of XI do you have.

Everything is scheduled now. Thanks for the help!

Excellent, glad to have helped.