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hi
We want to temporary deactivate a lot of our contacts but those are Depend on a lot of contactgroups. What is your approach to deactivate those contacts in order to don't receiving notifications (We are 510 contacts on our nagios xi and can't disable one by one of those).
And If possible, provide your document about Admin > users > Notification Management.
thanks a lot

Your question is unclear. Do you want to disable the contacts or disable notifications for the contacts?

hi
we want to disable notifications for some of contacts.
thanks

Here is some documentation:

https://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nag ... ios-XI.pdf
https://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nag ... ntacts.pdf

If you have a lot of contacts, you might consider something like this:
https://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nag ... gement.pdf

Then you can import valid contact.cfg files with notifications disabled to update existing contacts from the CLI.
https://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nag ... ml#contact

See something like host_notification_options = n.

To disable the Notifications for multiple Nagios Users, go to this menu Admin > users > Notification Management and click on the Notification Preferences tab.
Make sure the Deploy notification preferences box is checked and that the Enable notifications box is un-checked.
In the Template Title field, call the template Disable Notifications and Save the Template.

Then go to the Deploy to Users tab, load that template, select the users and click the Deploy Preferences button.
Depending on how the user accounts are setup, that should disable the Notifications.

hi
thanks a lot for your reply, that is resolved our problem, the enable process for that users is similor to this one?

thanks a lot for your reply, that is resolved our problem, the enable process for that users is similor to this one?

Yes, it is. Let us know if you have any more questions. Is it safe to close this topic?

hi
Yes, thanks a lot for your answers.