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Posted: **Fri Aug 26, 2016 3:36 am**

Hi there,

we would like use an external Interface for setting up and deleting downtimes.

With setting up downtimes everything works brilliant, but I'm not able to get the external command DEL_HOST_DOWNTIME working.

Assuming that we have a host dowtime set with scheduleddowntime_id = 221, I'm firing the following command from apache via php:

echo "[%lu] DEL_HOST_DOWNTIME;221\n" $now > $commandfile

I find instantly the following log entry:

EXTERNAL COMMAND: DEL_HOST_DOWNTIME;221

but in fact the downtime is still there...

We are using the Nagios Appliance running under CentOS, Nagios XI Version 5.2.9.

Any ideas?

Best regards,

Michael

Posted: **Fri Aug 26, 2016 9:22 am**

H-m-m, I am not able to recreate the issue. I had a scheduled downtime on localhost with downtime ID = 911.

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I was able to cancel it by running my "test.sh" script from the CLI.

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[root@localhost ~]# cat /tmp/test.sh
#!/bin/sh
# This is a sample shell script showing how you can submit the DEL_HOST_DOWNTIME command
# to Nagios.  Adjust variables to fit your environment as necessary.

now=`date +%s`
commandfile='/usr/local/nagios/var/rw/nagios.cmd'

/bin/printf "[%lu] DEL_HOST_DOWNTIME;911\n" $now > $commandfile

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[root@localhost ~]# /tmp/test.sh
[root@localhost ~]# tail /usr/local/nagios/var/nagios.log | grep -i downtime
[1472220945] HOST DOWNTIME ALERT: localhost;CANCELLED; Scheduled downtime for host has been cancelled.

I no longer see the downtime in the GUI.

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Are you sure you used the correct downtime ID?

Posted: **Mon Aug 29, 2016 12:45 am**

S H A M E on ME!

To get the downtime ID, I read value scheduleddowntime_id from table nagios_scheduleddowntime, what was obviously wrong...

The correct value is in field internal_downtime_id, so now my script works as expected.

Many thanks for your help and input!!!

Best regards,

Michael

Posted: **Mon Aug 29, 2016 9:19 am**

I am glad I could help!

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