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I have been asked by our app team to investigate extended Mass Functions. We want to be able to put a service for ~250 nodes in downtime during upgrades, rather than downtiming the whole nodes, as there is other checks running. Having a quick look in the components section, I saw this:
https://exchange.nagios.org/directory/A ... ns/details

Can that be used to extend XI functionality? It looks pretty handy.

The scheduling tool under Home > Incident Management >Scheduled Downtime does allow the scheduling of individual services across multiple hosts, but I did find the tool from the exchange can be integrated if you still want to test it out. Integration required couple additional steps on my lab machine:

1. Install CGI.pm with "cpan install CGI.pm"
2. The .cgi scripts hard code the location of the status.dat. If your machine has a ramdisk or otherwise uses a different location for status.dat, then you'll want to edit the scripts to point to /var/nagiosramdisk/status.dat instead of /usr/local/nagios/var/status.dat

Note that the link is accessible by going to the core interface(http(s)://nagios_ip/nagios) of the XI machine.

I would rather go with the proper tools. I completely missed that big blue button

However will it ever be feasible to do this via either hostgroup or service group? I dont think my app team will appreciate 180+ clicks when doing node upgrades on specific node types.

Or an ability to search for a service name and apply it to all copies of that service.

The ability to schedule hostgroup and servicegroup downtime is expected in the 5.6 release currently expected in Q1 next year. https://www.nagios.com/roadmaps/

Thats great! You can close this, and I will investigate it when released.