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In my company's Nagios deployment we have hosts that have child services configured (figure its fairly standard). I'd like to see if there is a way when I disable notifications on the host it would also disable notification on the child services as well. And vice versa when I re-enable the notification at the host level it would then re-enable the notifications on the child services.

Conversely I know you can schedule downtime for a host and the child services. However, then there are a flurry of emails are sent stating the host/services are in a scheduled downtime and again when it comes out of the downtime.

In a nutshell I want to be able to easily put a host and its child services into a maintenance mode without all of the email notifications. And then take them out.

Probably the best thing to do would be to turn off downtime notifications for hosts and services
Click your username (top right) -> Notification Preferences
Uncheck Host Downtime: & Service Downtime Downtime:

Then if you need to take a host down for maintenance schedule the host for downtime (you do not need to schedule all services too).