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Hi Nagios Support,

Presently, there is capability to turn off notifications via GUI using the Monitoring Engine Status. Very nice feature... However, after disabling through front-end and, if someone makes a configuration change and hits 'Apply Configuration' the notification process gets turned back on.

The only way I know to permanently disable notifications, that is not affected by config changes is to edit the /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg entry:

enable_notifications=1 <--- make this 0

Then bounce the nagios service by doing: service nagios restart

We would like to give our Operations Team the ability to temporarily shut off notifications (via the GUI) even if admins are making config changes. Is there a way to do this?

Thank you!
brdr

I just tested, and this persisted through an apply configuration without issue. When you navigate back to the monitoring engine status page AFTER applying configuration, does the box appear to be green under value for Notifications?

Also seems to still be turned off in status.dat -

Hello, I get the same result - does not persist after an apply configuration.

In Monitoring Engine Process table...

I click Action (X) for Notifications and wait until the value turns RED and Action then becomes a green check. I then go do a simple config update, then hit apply configuration, and Notifications value turns back to green and Action goes back to X.

NOTE: in my status.dat after disabling notifications via the Monitoring Engine Process it still show enable_notifications=1 . which tells me the disabling of notifications is turning it to 0.

programstatus {
modified_host_attributes=0
modified_service_attributes=0
nagios_pid=1421
daemon_mode=1
program_start=1487346136
last_log_rotation=0
enable_notifications=1
active_service_checks_enabled=1
passive_service_checks_enabled=0
active_host_checks_enabled=1

Are you using something other than the stock Nagios XI notification handler? That's all the setting on the "Monitoring Engine Status" page enables/disables. It won't address any sort of custom notification handlers.

We are not using custom notification handler. We are using 'xi_host_notification_handler' command.

Still, when I initially disable notifications via Monitoring Engine Process table the flag enable_notifications is set from 1 to 0. Which is what we want, but then after Apply Configuration it goes from 0 to 1.

Can you share the full contents of your /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg file? There may be a setting that's preventing retention.dat from being leveraged and resetting the monitoring engine' settings to default each time.

attach is nagios.cfg.

Note: this is occurring in our PreProd environment as well.

Thank you

Your configuration isn't retaining the program state:
Try switching that to 1 and see if it resolves the issue.

Yes, that fixed my issue. Thank you!

plz close

brdr