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Hello again,

This time, we're trying to determine whether a host is in downtime or not via the API: is this possible?

Thanks as always for your time,


-- Mike Beebe

@mbeebe, You can run the object/hoststatus API query and look for the "scheduled_downtime_depth" parameter. You can also query a specific host only by adding &host_name=YourHostName at the end of the query.

http://192.168.3.3/nagiosxi/api/v1/obje ... ame=myHost

Thank you for that answer.

We're having another issue, and rather than spawning a dozen threads, I'll keep my questions in this one:

API to submit downtime not working.

POST URL:
http://xxx.xxx.xxx/nagiosxi/api/v1/syst ... services=1

POST to API returns the following:
{ "success": "Schedule downtime command(s) sent successfully.", "scheduled": { "hosts": [ "xxx.xxx.xxx" ], "services": { "xxx.xxx.xxx": [ "ALL" ] } } }

HTTP Access log:
10.194.11.244 - - [01/May/2019:14:57:54 -0700] "POST /nagiosxi/api/v1/system/scheduleddowntime?apikey=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx&pretty=1&comment=test&start=1556722620&end=1556722740&hosts[]=xxx.xxx.xxx&all_services=1 HTTP/1.1" 200 284 "-" "PostmanRuntime/7.11.0"

However, when we look on the web interface, the server doesn't show as being in downtime. To make matters stickier, this is intermittent.

Any advice on this?


-- Mike Beebe

@mbeebe, Let's keep API related questions in this thread but for other non-related questions, please open a new thread.
Is there a pattern when the downtime API command fails? For example, if you submit many commands at once, etc? Is there a specific host that fails most or this happens with different hosts randomly? How are you submitting API commands, what tool are you using?

I'll make sure to create new threads for new questions outside of the current API questions.

Here are the answers to your questions:

1. As far as we've tested, there doesn’t seem to be a pattern to the API failures. One command is being submitted at a time.
2. There seems to be no pattern as far as which hosts fails; totally random as far as we can tell.
3. Command is submitted via a PHP web interface that generates the curl statement

Please let me know if you have any other questions. I know this isn't a lot to go on, but we appreciate your help.

-- Mike Beebe

The difference between your start time and end time were only 2 minutes and depending on what timezone you are in, likely had already passed by the time you made the post.

Can you test it using a time that is well into the future and see if the downtime shows in the list of scheduled downtimes?

Hello,

A quick note to let you know we resolved the issue and it was something on our side.

Thanks again for the help,

-- Mike Beebe

mbeebe wrote:Hello,

A quick note to let you know we resolved the issue and it was something on our side.

Thanks again for the help,

-- Mike Beebe

glad to hear it is resolved!