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Hello Nagios Team!
I have a question about my nagios installation:

If I schedule a downtime for a host the services are not in a downtime. I have to use the option "Schedule downtime for all associated services". But if I use this option the downtime overview is absolutely confusing because there are hosts with 20 or more services und then there is a huge list in this view. To delete this downtime you have to mark all services.
My question is, why i have to schedule a downtime for services if the host is already in a downtime? In my opinion it makes no sense. Is there a possibility to schedule a downtime for a host and all the services are also in a downtime but with the condition the services should not appear in the operation center (or other views where I hide hosts in a downtime) and send no notifications.

Hello, @fuchstiger.

You can schedule downtime for host and all associated services at once via incident manager/scheduled downtime. It's located in the left column on the home screen in XI. Or you could use Mass incident manager/acknowledge menu schedule downtime or remove downtime for many hosts/services at once. Take a look at this article:
https://support.nagios.com/kb/article.php?id=544
Also by downtime overview are you referring to Operations center?

I know the possibilities to schedule a downtime. But I want an automatic downtime for services if I schedule a downtime for a host.
So the service downtimes doen't appear in the "Incident Management" in Scheduled Downtime.

Isn't there any option in the nagios config to set this behavior?

@fuchstiger, I see. Newer versions of XI should have a drop-down menu that allows you to filter through instances. If you want to see only hosts in downtime than you can check the Hosts box. "In effect" means that they are down right now, and not in effect means that they're scheduled for downtime in the future.