Would it be an option to use the API to disable monitoring when a Test/Dev host is taken down (e.g. using a shutdown script) and re-enable it when it is brought up again?
This would still provide full monitoring and alerting as long as the host is running, and if a machine crashes or otherwise becomes unavailable, but not during planned downtime indicated by server shutdown. > On 16 Jun 2016, at 01:11, Felix Cruz <[email protected]> wrote: > > No expert here, but if they can power off at anytime, then how would Icinga > distinguish a power off from a host down? You'd have to be able to monitor > for power status directly at the power socket. Even then, how would you know > if the power off status was intentional or not? > > Tel them if they want monitoring it stays on, or as the previous person said, > why bother monitoring? > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Jun 15, 2016, at 7:34 AM, Pascal Larivee <[email protected]> wrote: > >> My question would be then, why monitor them at all? Or you could set then in >> a "qa" group that sends no alert at all, only viewable on the web interface >> -- >> Pascal Larivée >> Senior IT Architecture & Cloud Ops Engineer >> Internap >> >> Unfortunately interval time may not be the best method since dev/qa people >> can power their servers on and off when they want. So they could power them >> on for the weekend if they're working, or they may power them off during a >> workday if they have the day off. >> >> On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 7:21 AM, Gunnar Beutner <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> Hello, >> >> There are two things you could do about that: >> >> 1. Set the check_period attribute for those Host and Service objects – this >> way Icinga will only run checks during whatever interval you specify in that >> TimePeriod object. >> 2. Set the period attribute for whatever Notification objects you have for >> those hosts and services – that way Icinga will still check those hosts and >> services, however it will only send notifications according to the intervals >> in the TimePeriod object. >> >> Kind regards, >> Gunnar >> >> On 15/06/16 13:16, "icinga-users on behalf of Matt Shields" >> <[email protected] on behalf of [email protected]> wrote: >> >> I have Icinga setup to monitor our production instances in AWS, but we also >> have dev/qa resources that get shut off every night. I haven't been >> monitoring them because as soon as they power off I get flooded with alerts. >> >> >> Is there a way to monitor servers only when they are powered on? >> >> >> Thanks >> Matt _______________________________________________ icinga-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.icinga.org/mailman/listinfo/icinga-users
